The way we used to be thread

[scouserdave]

My Grandad, Lawrence Wood and my youngest brother, Ken. They look so similar. Never got to meet my Grandad. He died 3 years before I was born.

[Kev]

Dave, the loss of my grandparents was devastating . Wish they could have seen my kids. Here's my grandad at Garston Police Station.

Harry The Brush

[scouserdave]

Dave, the loss of my grandparents was devastating . Wish they could have seen my kids. Here's my grandad at Garston Police Station.

Harry The Brush

I love this pic, Kev. I bet he was a right laugh. I wish my Mum and Dad were still around to see their grandkids. I lost my Dad in 1996 and my Mum last year. I took this pic of my Mum about 7 months before she passed away.

[Kev]

A lovely pic Dave. My grandad was full of laughs. He's the one that would find humour in the most unlikeliest of situations, family weddings he would have us laughing out loud at the most inapropriate times. Sunday afternoons were his thing, a drink down the local boozer (The Masonic, Garston). I was still a little too young to endulge in a beer or two. He bought me my first suit for my work experience.

When he died, the police all took up positions on the street corners of every rd from Argyle Rd, Garston all the way to the Crem at Springwood as a mark of respect.

[Paul D]

My Grandad, Lawrence Wood and my youngest brother, Ken. They look so similar. Never got to meet my Grandad. He died 3 years before I was born.

I never got to meet one of my Grandads either but my other Grandad sailed around the World 27 times and was on the great Liverpool cruise liners like Mauitania,Lusitania and the Brittanic,thanks for the pictures and for sharing your stories lads.

[lindylou]

My grandad. second down from middle of doorway. First world war soldiers.


My grandad seated behind the cup.

[scouserdave]

Kev's thread has prompted me to begin scanning the family pics which I've been given charge of since our Mum passed away.
Here's a few

Three of my Dad as a kid when he served in the Royal Engineers in Egypt and Libya in the early '50s. First pic he's middle row in front of the goalie.






My Mum, aged 8 years old when she was evacuated to Pen-y-groes in WW2


Myself and younger bro' Colin at Formby

[Waterways]

I traced the ship that my mothers brother (my uncle) was on when he was killed. She never knew the name or any details. The ship was torpedoed by U-135 near off Cape Race. He was seen to take to the lifeboats but never seen again - a Belgian ship. Why was he on a Belgian ship? He was a deserter from the British army. As a merchant seaman he hated the army. He joined an armed Belgian tub that was German owned, sold to the Belgians and due to be scrapped in 1939 and kept on for the war. The army came for him after he was killed - he would have been jailed. The Belgians have his name on the Cenotaph in Antwerp. In the UK he was a disgrace and in Belgium a hero. And all in the same war fighting the same enemy.



http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/1282.html

[FKoE]

There a list of civilian dead available online that lists the death of the merchant marine too in its indexes ... searchable by surname. I'm sure its a .gov.uk site ..

does anyone have the link at hand ?

[FKoE]

http://www.cwgc.org/

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk


Links to tracing relatives who died during WWII can be found here ^^^

[Norm NZ]

As a Suez Vet., who also served in the zone in the early 50s, (1952) at the same time as you Dad,you might care to look at a couple of sites concerning Suez! One is The Suez Vets Site, and another is Britains Small Wars (Suez Section) you might find them interesting! Best Regards.

[scouserdave]

Thanks Norm NZ. I'll have a look at them this morning.

[Kev]

Me in the school football team around 19084/85. I'm sure Mr Norris would confirm that we had the best school team in Liverpool, guess where I am?

[john]

My Dad, Mum, me, aunties and cousins about 1961

[lindylou]

Kev, are you on the end of the top row - right hand side ?