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From: David Collyer <>
Subject: Old IOW Book
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:03:53 -0900


Dear Friends & Cousins,
An elderly woman from the IOW who lives in Melbourne has a book whcih I'm
dying to see. She is Audrey LYONS from Newport who must be well over 80 and
still making hte most beautiful fine bobbin lace. Here's what she says of
the book. Perhaps some of you know it already. But I haven't heard it
mentiooned here before:-

>Audrey Lyons asked after you and showed me a book on the Isle of Wight that
>she said she had spoken to you about. She was disappointed you couldn't be
>there to see it. It's a lovely very old book full of terrific B&W photos,
>and it is by an S COLYER - she thought even though the spelling is different
>it still may be an old relative of yours. The book was printed in England
and doesn't
>have a year in it but she reckons going by the text it is about 100 years
ago, definitely before WWI.
David in Ballarat

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