Some more press cuttings of Uncle Charles.
Ian has outlined in some depth his life growing up with a Father who gave singing recitals and entertained for a living. There is a
Uncle Charles won’t like the reference to the Wilfred Pickles programme broadcast on the Home Service of the BBC around war time. I read today
Fascinating, all that about wartime food substitutes. I remember the meat shortage, but I don’t remember those – my mother tried us on rabbits and
Ian wrote: ”The picture under the heading “Yardley Wood Road” was Yardley Green Road – there is a real Yardley Wood Road nearer Yardley.The house
Edna! A letter/note from Agnes to Edna on the latter’s 21st birthday. This would make it about 1934. Ian would have been about six I’m
“Thank you for posting that. Ours was the one with the chimney showing. Granny Raybould’s sister (Great) Aunt(ie) Annie moved in in 1908, new built,
As Rob Wilton used to sing. Ian’s been a’wandering again, down that lane. Memories of wartime, vital to capture these snippets before the memory steelers
I have now had chance to edit the original page, and now the audio links should be working – step back ninety years or so
Taken two years ago, this is worth repeating in our dusting off the archives session going on down here in Wales. Taken on Ian’s 90th
… must be something in the water. Ian’s daughter Anna, son Ross and partner Millie have had LyLa
Both my parents left school at age 14 to go to work. Charles Hill, still single, joined the army in 1914 and had been working