The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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inconvenient, they were only required for the home farm which was but about 30 acres of grazing land. The site was, or might have been, with proper shelter and arrangement as fine as need be. Standing South on a gradually sloping hill, the pretty village of Belton lying out in full view with a woodland landscape beyond. Then on the south-east the extensive view stretching away to Rocking. On the south west the rich pasture land, on the east part of Leicestershire. Yes, Old Lambley, with all thy want of, and fewness of comfort, to me thy pure bracing air, thy pleasant open views, and many many memories of loved ones sheltered under thy partly thatched roof, are rich, tender and blessed. Having sketched a few particulars of

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