Carole Yvonne Caulton
Carole Yvonne Caulton (1944 – 2021) was born on 26th September 1944 in Richmond, Yorkshire, to Gordon and Dorothy. She had an older sister Dianne. They lived in various military houses over the years including in Pakistan where the girls went to school in Abbottabad. Carole studied at Farnborough Secretarial...
Caroline Susan Louise Green
Caroline Susan Louise Green (1980 – 2021) was born on 8th April 1980 to Richard and Sandra Green the elder sister of Vicky. After growing up in Sussex, Caroline went to Nottingham University. Caroline’s first job after leaving university was in the South of France. She continued to travel, visiting...
Caroline Tunnacliffe Bennett
Caroline Dimont, Carrie, was born to Penelope and Charles on 12th March at the Rectory, in Willersey near Broadway where her grandfather Arthur was the vicar. She became part of a large extended family, her older sister Madelon, her younger siblings Julia and Deborah, Sally and Jeremy and Charles’ second...
Carolyn Mary Beeley
Carolyn Mary Beeley (1946 – 2024) was born to Clarice and Brian Earnshaw on 22 August 1946 in Leeds, the older sister to Thomas. After moving to Beccles a village in Suffolk, the family returned to Yorkshire where Carolyn attended Batley Girls’ Grammar School. She trained as a teacher in...
Catherine ‘Cath’ Goymer
Catherine ‘Cath’ Goymer (1940 – 2019) was born in Willesden to Joe and Rowley Beach. She had an elder brother, Joe, and two younger sisters, Irene and Gwen. Cath won a scholarship to the Henrietta Barnet School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. After school, she worked as a secretary. She married...
Charles ‘Charlie’ Legg
Charles ‘Charlie’ Francis Legg (1939 – 2019) was born in Kent to Stuart and Margaret. He had a sister, Ruth and two brothers, Tom and Robby. From 1940, the family spent time in North America before moving back to England in 1948. Charlie attended Frensham Heights School in Surrey, close...
Chris Rowlands
Chris was born to Kenneth and Jean Rowlands on 21st June 1945 in Stocksbridge. He had a younger brother Tony. On leaving school Chris went to work at the steelworks and remained there as a general steelworker until his retirement at the age of sixty. Chris was mechanically minded and...
Christine Finlow
Christine Finlow (1923 – 2018) was born on 3 February in Stafford. She was an only child but had a great many aunts, uncles and cousins. She grew up in Milford near Cannock Chase. Despite doing well in school she left at 14 to work – but she followed her...
Christine McCaffrey
Christine McCaffrey (1933 – 2022) was born on 18th January 1933, the only child of Dennis and Beatrice Hanrohan. She grew up in Surbiton, the Isle of Wight and Worthing. After leaving school Christine took a Pitman secretarial course and began her long career in the motor racing industry, initially...
Christine Ramsey
Christine Ramsay (1935 – 2018) was born on 7 December in Luton, an only child. She worked as a teaching assistant at a school for children with learning difficulties as well as volunteering as a nursery assistant and at the Redbourn Stroke Club. She was a skilled cook and enjoyed...
Christine Vincent
Christine Patricia Vincent (1957 – 2019) was born on the 15th February 1957 in Calcutta, to Pat and Archibald. The family returned to the UK, when Christine was two, and settled in Kent. She had two sisters, Susan and Rhiannon. In 1963 Christine’s mother married Leslie Dyte, with whom she...
Christopher (Chris) John Roberts
Christopher (Chris) Roberts was born in Coventry to Rita and John on 6th January 1963, a younger brother to Dave. He attended King Henry VIII school where he excelled at sport, his passion being rugby. Pursuing his interest in the arts and specifically photography, Chris studied Visual Communications at Walsall...
Christopher John Sowden
Christopher John Sowden (1950-2018) grew up in Wyke, Yorkshire. He left school at fifteen, working various jobs until settling on a career as a refrigeration engineer, a job that took him all over the world. He met his wife Cath in 1967. They were married in Low Moor in 1971...
Clifford Litton
Clifford Litton (1947-2018) was the second child of Nancy and Leonard, and younger brother of Diana. Despite early illnesses, Cliff passed the 11 plus to join Exeter School. He later read mathematical statistics at Birmingham followed by a research degree in Lancaster. He joined the Maths Department at Nottingham in...
Clive Thomas
Clive Edmund Thomas (1968 – 2019) was born in Church Village, Wales, on the 25th January 1968, to Enid and Ken. He grew up in Llanharry and had two elder brothers, David and Steven. Clive’s life was impacted by the effects of meningitis, which he contracted at the age of...
Colin Frankling
Colin Roland Frankling (1932–2019) was born in Eastbourne, one of the three children of Doris and Frank. He wanted to train in carpentry and become a boat-builder, but his father apprenticed him to an electrician. Not happy with this, Colin secretly travelled to HMS Ganges, and signed on as a...
Constance (Con, Connie) Isabel Beattie
Constance Isabel Beattie (1929 – 2023) was born on the 23rd July 1929, a sister to Win, Angus, and Don. She was known as Con, or Connie. As her father Archibald Thomson was a Congregational Minister, the family moved frequently to different churches and Connie was educated at boarding schools. ...
Cynthia Newton
Cynthia Newton (1922 – 2017) was born Cynthia Taylor in Liverpool, and was one of four children. She studied first at Bedford College and then at Cambridge where she achieved a 2:1 in Geography. She spent most of her life working in social services, firstly as a probation officer and...
Cynthia Swift
Cynthia Swift (1923 – 2021) was born on 2nd July 1923, the seventh of Jane and George Booth’s eight children. Cynthia left school at fourteen and went into service before working in a laundry, where she met Ted, a postman. Cynthia and Ted married on 24th April 1943, and started...
Dale Winton
Dale Winton (1955-2018) was born in North London on 22 May, the only child of a Jewish businessman and his wife Sheree, an actress. Named after the American actor Dale Robertson, he worked as a disc jockey on Radio Trent for several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s...
David Evans
David Evans (1953 – 2021) was born in Woking, the eldest of six children. David was successful in the IT industry for over 30 years, implementing multi-lingual, multi-currency accounting and control systems around the world for many different industries. Whilst working in Switzerland David met Joy. Upon returning to England...
David George Baines
David was born near White Hart Lane football ground in Tottenham on 3rd of July 1943, the third of seven children, and became a lifelong Spurs fan. His very first job was as a messenger for Barclays Bank on the Seven Sisters Road. When the family moved to Takely in...
David Glyn Vaughan OBE (Professor)
David Glyn Vaughan (1962 – 2023) was born on 23 October 1962 in the hospital at RAF Akrotiri, Nicosia, Cyprus, although at the time, his parents lived in Tobruk, Libya. After the family returned to the UK, David attended Yateley Comprehensive School and then Ivybridge Community College. In 1984 David...
David Gumbrell
David Gumbrell (1944 – 2018) was born on 28 March in Weymouth. He worked as a stonemason and also played in a band called the Crescendoes which had a number one hit in Germany. David later worked at the Welsh Folk Museum and was part of a band called Mock...
