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I’m sorry Mo, I wasn’t around much last night so didn’t see your post.
I have had a good read of what you have posted and the WW posts of Tony’s wife, very interesting indeed.
My memory of Tony’s Mum is of a very nice lady with a lovely Scottish accent.
She wasn’t around much because she was working the hours of a nurse,
Last year we were driving back from our holidays in Scotland, we were staying on the Rhins of Galloway near Stranraer.
There was a major road traffic incident and we were diverted through Castle Douglas and I thought of Tony’s Mum as that is where she was from.
It’s a lovely part of the world and Helen ended up in Ince.
Thank goodness she returned to her roots.
I haven’t seen Tony since we were teenagers.
He was the clever one and went to Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton.
I went to Rose Bridge Sec Mod in Ince having failed my 11 plus, I had serious exam nerves and failed by temperament rather than ability.
As you have said, it’s a small world and who would have known that we have a connection with somebody in the past.
How lovely of you to have painted that picture of The Isle of Arran for her,
I wonder if it was ever found.