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Game 101

The place your mother came from

Your family’s first chapter

A video by British Pathé

The game's question

Ask gently where she came from, then let your mum or dad take the story wherever it goes.

Everyone comes from somewhere: a town, a village, a street with its own sounds. Your mother came from somewhere too, and perhaps she spoke of it in her own way – a name she said with a smile, a place she went back to. Which town or village did she come from, and what was it like there?

A story only you can tell

Need a hint?

Ask about the streets, the house, the shops nearby or the accent your grandmother may have kept all her life.

Why this game : Where the family comes from is where its story starts – a first chapter worth passing on.

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A woman and her father at the kitchen table, the game book in front of them

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