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
Ian must have had a deep rummage and produced this gem. Emily Jane is pictured holding “young” Arthur Short (Gladys) and Ian Hill (Agnes). Both
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
Or is it “Free, the Pumphrey two” (to anybody that would like them)? It’s a good slogan for a supermarket, but in this case the
Ian has been clearing out his cupboards and drawers and came across this which he asked me to publish… It is a typewritten note, probably
I was perusing the above, looking for photos of Ian’s great-grand children to correct errors on the site and came across memories of Aunty Pumphrey,
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
Ian sent through; “Auntie Pumphrey’s will, made at 84 Yardley Road. She was probably living with Annie at the time. When Auntie Annie died the
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