Yes a big thank you to all who have sent their best wishes for our forthcoming wedding anniversary including one of our NWVRT members who sent pictures of our little celebration after the open day. I think the quality of the event has reached many people and we were fortunate to have folk from many parts of the UK attending. The next event will be the Nocturnal running day in November. I've got three of the North East DVDs ready but still need to make covers, all this weeks 8 releases are on the updated list of films. The date that DVDs will no longer be made is 16th March 2028, the last DVD offered for sale will be 16th March 2030. I am thinking of memory sticks which could be plugged in to play on a Smart TV for those still without computers. They play automatically when you push them into the socket. It would work if the sticks were cheap, file size is only about 8gb. So costs such as discs, covers, plastic covers, postage, envelopes etc will vanish. So will lugging DVDs to rallies, I think I'll have a pop up info pint representing PMP, NWVRT and OTA plus perhaps the British Polio Fellowship. That should make a good point for distribution of newsletters and information and having a chat. The disc maker that prints DVDs will go to rest plus all the disc copiers will be redundant. I'll keep all the tech though as you never know when it will be needed. With the 80th anniversary of the D Day landings we are think8ing more in general of those who served. On my adopted dads side he together with his father and other relations served in the Kings Liverpool regiment. George spent most of his service life in India, then due to an injury when war came he was posted back to the UK and served as a teacher in Fort George in the very far north of Scotland which when he got engaged to to Marion in Sussex made dating a marathon journey, his only reprimand in his service career was being a few hours late back after on such jaunt. His last task before finishing was to take a serviceman under close arrest to London, it was the only time George actually carried a pistol or any sort of weapon as he was a bandsman like his father. Here is a shot of Prof my grandad in full regalia he went on to serve on the trams becoming an inspector and bandmaster of the tramway band. When George was in India he wore all types of uniforms, here he is centre in the early 1940s bottom picture and in basic uniform for home on the left, he had just one leave home in all the years he was there otherwise breaks were on the Kashmir lakes. The colourisation process seems to want to colour the khaki too dark, I think it must think of US soldier uniforms which were darker. So the newly weds from 1944, George and Marion Spencer who adopted me in 1952 after Marion has suffered miscarriages and still births. I'm pretty sure this is the style of cap badge by WWII era, simply, The Kings. I've written before about my uncle Sam Osborne husband of Olive Shove who was mortally wounded in the opening minutes of D Day parachuting to capture the Caen canal. This meant that the four Shove sisters had three service men now reduced to two, George Eaton husband of Thelma Shove would die shortly after the war. George Spencer lived but died in his early 50's of damage to his organs sustained in his service overseas. This just left Aunty Sylvia, her husband Claude was in a reserved engineering position and was the link which brought Liverpool to the family.
Here are the other Shove girls at Marion and Georg's wedding at St Mary's, Old Town, Eastbourne in Sussex. Olive who lost her Sam is in the rear row behind George Spencer, George Eaton far left was an officer, at first he thought it not done for an office to be at a NCO's wedding. The short lady between the two Georges was Daisy George's mother, the reason for many a family rift. Thelma front right was the youngest of the four sisters and last to pass away. Comments are closed.
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