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...
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...
David Lindores Renwick
David Lindores Renwick (1937 – 2024) was born in Cambridge to Joy (née Bonong ) and John, a police officer, and had a younger brother Stuart. The family had moved to Cambridge from the Scottish border town of Peebles. Joy and John were both musicians and the family often...
David Michael Morris
David Michael ‘Mike’ Morris (1941–2018) was born in Trethomas, the eldest child of David Pryce Morris and Lily May. Mike attended Bedwellty Secondary Modern where his lifelong passion for rugby started. It continued through Machen Rugby Club where he played, coached, refereed and helped run the club. Mike was awarded...
David Murray
David Murray (1928 – 2018) was born on 14 December in Newport, the youngest of three children. He served as an Air Raid Precautions messenger during World War Two and then as an apprentice draughtsman once he had left school. He later qualified as a Chartered Engineer and worked for...
David Peacock
David Peacock (1956 – 2018) was born in Cassington to parents Lionel and Eileen. He had five siblings but was particularly close to his elder sister, Jessica. David attended the village school in Cassington, and then Bartholomew School in Eynsham, where he showed himself to be a bright student. After...
David Pollock
David Pollock (1942–2023) was born in February 1942 and turned out to be the eldest of four brothers in a large and loving extended middle class family with progressive tendencies. He had many happy and vivid memories from his childhood, which was secure and supportive, including of a much loved...
David Richards
David Richards (1948-2017) was born in Oldham to Hilda and David. He had two older sisters, Emily and Evelyn. David attended Leicester College of Art and then Coventry College of Art for his National Diploma in Fine Art. His career in TV began at Granada Television in Manchester. He had...
David Taylor
David Taylor (1943 – 2024), was born in Bolton to Charles and Nellie Taylor on 17th August 1943, an older brother to Anne-Marie. Leaving school at sixteen, David qualified first as a Civil Engineer, then as a Chartered Civil and also a Chartered Structural Engineer. Moving to Huddersfield, David worked...
David Williams
David Williams (1946–2018) was born in Merthyr Tydfil, the only child of Haydn and Anne. He attended Georgetown Primary School, followed by the County Grammar School in Merthyr. He started work for the Royal Mail as a postman, aged seventeen. David married Mary in 1969 and they moved to Swansea....
Deborah Elizabeth Smith
Deborah Elizabeth Smith was born in Tanzania on 3rd November 1958, to Harry and Doreen. She had two older brothers, Nicholas and Gregory. She grew up in Africa, where her father worked, until the age of ten. She attended a boarding school in England when she was seven but she...
