I've mentioned before that I never knew my Dad, he was killed in a motorbike accident in 1954, a few months before I was born. I always knew that and there were photographs in the house but he was rarely talked about after Mum married his older brother when I was 3 years old.
Apart from photographs I only have a few bits belonging to him. He did his National Service after the war in the RAF and I believe was posted to the Isle of Man. He certainly went somewhere by boat as I have a berthing card.
The brass trivet was made when he was an engineering machinist at ICI. And somewhere around is his locker key for ICI (large paint manufacturer then based in Stowmarket, Mum worked in the testing lab there after leaving school which I suppose is how they met). I also have a set of parallel rulers of his that would have been used by a navigator in a plane.
I often wonder how different life might have been had he lived.
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One of my uncles worked for many years at the Stowmarket ICI paint factory. His house was always immaculately decorated with cheap paint from the factory.
ReplyDeleteHow hard it must have been for your Mum at the time.
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking the same as Angela.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing with us Sue. So poignant, especially the photos. How devastating it must have been for family and friends, such a terrible shock.Sad for you too, not to have known him, especially as he wasn’t mentioned very often, but I think that’s how it was back in the day unfortunately . June x
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