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 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 working for Jack...
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 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. When a young...
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 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 completed his first...
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...
David Henry Hazard
David was born 28th November 1930 in Stepney and lived there with his younger sister Joan (born 1935) through the early war years until their house was blasted out but they soon returned to the East End, living in new flats in West India Dock Road and then moving into...
David Hydes
David Frank Hydes (1948–2018) was born in Leeds to Albert and Ada. He had two brothers, Michael and Graham. David won a place at Leeds Grammar School and represented the school at rugby and swimming. He then studied English and Geography at Liverpool University. After teacher training, his first teaching...
David Ibry
David Ibry (1926 – 2017) was born in Haifa, then in Palestine, on 26 August. After his parents’ divorce and his father’s subsequent death, he moved to Milan and remained in Italy for the rest of his childhood. In later life, he worked as a manager for the typewriter firm...
David Kirkwood
David Francis Kirkwood (1927-2018) was born in Perth, Scotland. He had two brothers, Jack and Neil. David attended many schools, but left aged 13 to go into private service, rising to footman at Alloa House. He did his National Service in 1946, training as a parachutist with a spell in...
David Knight
David Lawrence Knight (1955 – 2019) was born on 12 July 1955 in Leyton, East London, to Dora and Dave. He had one brother, John. David married Anne when they were 20 and 17 respectively. They had two children together, Joe and Ellie. David trained as a social worker, specialising...
David Lindley
David Lindley (1938 – 2018) was born in Worthing on 29 March, the eldest of three children. After two years of National Service, he joined the then GPO (now BT) as a telephone engineer and later manager. David enjoyed doing DIY and dreamed of building his own home. He was...
