He was a Commercial Clerk and also an Air Raid Warden during the war, with a wooden rifle! guarding Woodhead Tunnel!
Later he owned a coal company which had been in the family for a number of years, and he was the only one willing to take it over.
His nature was kind and romantic and not the type to keep a lot of men under control.
He should have been a poet or writer.
His family were quite wealthy, and he met my mother, who was a nurse and came from a poor background.
She had also been trained in dressmaking by a tailor in Manchester, and she used this expertise for the rest of her life, earning extra money by making clothes for local wealthy ladies.
They enjoyed playing golf together and were both captains of their local golf club.
and here a photo of my parents, Stuart and Dorothy being married in April 1938 being four years before I appeared
This is an early photo of me with my mother
