Wigan Album

Wuddup Ozy. It seems full-identification of the two Foxy Mamas and the Pinkpolo'd Steve Winwood type of guy are slow in coming, or has my limited power of formulating completely deserted me. I have learned (this morning), however, of your recent visit to my neck of the woods, and how my stay in Fuerteventura would have been the likely cause of you not being able to pin me down; 'mumble' throughout this particular satellite is usually delivered with much haste - doh! Regards.

I've only seen Irene's 1940's event photo so I am guessing she is the girl on the right.... Sure she will correct me if I'm wrong. (although the clue is in the coat supposedly)

I believe those masts in the background are the masts of the Coastguard Station, overlooking Shakespear Cliff, Dover. I once took a retired coastguard officer, to this station, in the eighties. He was then in his nineties. He had served in the R.N. all through the first world war, and then all through the second world war. He had been a C.P.O. Very interesting in the Coastguard Station. What really interested me was a very large globe that showed all of the English Channel. It showed every ship using the Channel. The Channel is a strictly two way system, because it is so busy. On the globe you could easily see, if any ship was transgressing, as the globe showed up, the wake of each ship, its name, ownership, destination, and tonnage, plus other incidentals.

It isn't the Irene in question.

Reference the comment I made previously, relating to the old ex naval gentleman. Being of a great age, he did suffer with various ailments. One early morning his wife, who was herself in her nineties, telephoned, as he needed to go to the Medway Hospital, which had been in earlier times, The Royal Naval Hospital. When the nurse asked him if he had attended that hospital before. He replied. "Yes, in 1916, when I was wounded with shrapnel." Nurse replied, with a smile. "We won't have those records now."

I suspect the White Cliffs of Dover in the background.
Glenn Miller song 1939.

Also Vera Lynn in 1942.

That's me on the left with the fancy coat.