Friday 30 September, the last official day of summer proved to be the best of the season, hot with a pleasant sea breeze which I enjoyed during the afternoon sitting on a bench on the Law Top park overlooking the mouth of the river Tyne, listening to the sounds and occasional watching the scene as I read the first and second chapters of Le Carré’s Honourable Schoolboy. After an hour during which my eyes were closed more than open, I walked through the park reaching the green hoardings which mark the site of the new Leisure complex. As I had assumed the site stretches back well into the park at the south eastern corner and there is no doubt that this will be the biggest single new building event by the Council in the town since the creation of the Temple Park Leisure centre over two perhaps three decades ago. It should continue to resurrect the town as a seaside resort and I look forward to seeing the completed development in at least two year’s time. It is possible to view into the site through various small windows cut into the hoardings at adult and child heights.
I was then able to find a bench overlooking the river mouth at ground level where I stayed reading and dozing for half an hour before walking towards the river entrance to take a closer look at a large container type ship as it was brought into dock by two pilot boats. There were plenty of people taking advantage of the fine weather, one group of students from the local further education college, some families, mothers with children and older citizens like me including several enjoying the view from the comfort of their cars in the car park adjacent to the river mouth area. I climbed up the tall sharp steps, slowly returning home about two hours later, enjoying a cooling drink and marvelling at the wonder of the belatedly summertime experience.
It was my second exercise of the day having got up early for a 500 metre swim although the sight of he new leisure complex at the bottom of the hill with walking add to recent uncertainty about continuing to remain a member of the Marriott over the Winter. I must explore costs and opening times at Temple Park in the meantime.
I did some writing although it was a struggle as I was not in the mood. It was another good food day after a visit to Asda where I had bought chickens and some fresh dish products only to have to return them to their racks on finding I had left all my credit cards at home. An assistant agreed to mind the trolley with the other items while I went back home for a card. I purchased two chickens for £7, a pair of Thai fishcakes, one of which I enjoyed for lunch with some scampi and baked beans. I bought two cartons of raspberries for £1 and some grapes, a packet of prawns in shell £4 using up most of the my other packet for a salad evening meal, two large jars of green olives with pimento at £1.36 each, A bottle of Asti Spumante for Christmas or possibly an earlier cause for celebration in in order to make use of the wine wrack in the new fridge and a giant pack of a dozen toilet rolls. I enjoyed a banana with custard after the salad in the evening watching the last of the American X factor auditions. I also watched one film, The Town.
Saturday October 1s,, one of the most important days in my annual calendar started energetically despite having made the decision not to go to the leisure in order to be able to go out an enjoy the weather and undertake a raft of activities. I had enjoyed reading the opening chapters of the Honourable Schoolboy until around 12.30 am and then had a mixed night waking after 7 having turned off the alarm.
I have made the decision to cancel my Marriott subscription and visit the Temple Park Centre for various reasons. I am not enjoying the experience as I have in the past and it continues to affects the rest of my day. I am not looking forward to the early starts with the approach of winter. There is the important financial consideration. There was the sight yesterday of the new development at the bottom of the hill within walking distance. I have checked the position at Temple Park and there is swimming available three mornings a week between 8 and 9 for adults. A six month pass including car parking costs £104 which works out which works out at £4 compared with £1,20 per session plus car parking charges although this will depend when the charge commences and where the fee is 70 pence all day but from what time. The other issue is that the cost of towels or does on have to provide ones own?
The first activity on coming downstairs was to return the books, maps, booklets, to the two book cases in the passage way before the day room. Taking the car out I watered all the plants noting the need to do a tidy and preparation for winter. Need to buy bulbs. Visit B and Q on Wednesday.
Before lunch I decided to update the file on leaflets offering Takeaways, Collects and Restaurants which not totals 94 separate enterprises although several have been closed and replaced during the past period of 3 years with 10 of the restaurants and 231 leaflets in total between 1 and 2 every week.
I watched an early morning hard fought battle between England and Scotland for a place in the last eight of the Rugby Union World Cup. Wilkinson did not have his kicking boots after being required to use the official ball with only two penalties from 5 and a drop goal. Scotland were the better team in the first half and England only appeared to function as a world beating unit in patches during the second half. They were always chasing the Scots with points on the board that needed a margin of six points to replace England as the team going through. With only 3 minutes of the match left England scored a try to put the result in beyond doubt taking the lead 16-12 as Ashton scored over the line and Flood who had come on for an injured Wilkinson converted. All the Scottish points came from penalties with two from Petersen and two from Parks.
Last night there was a last gasp defeat for Warrington in the semi final of the challenge cup. Leeds finish only 5th in the table and it is only the second time in the short history of the revised format that the team heading the table at the end of season has not made the final. Warrington was nervous and made mistakes whereas Leeds has looked stronger and more confident in every match they have played since losing the Cup Final. The final score was 24 to 26 for the visitors. Later on Saturday evening there was another upset when St Helens who finished third in the table bear Wigan who finished second thus for the first time neither of the top two reached the final next Saturday at Manchester.
Over a lunch of chicken wing and raspberries I watched the Merseyside Derby where traditionally I sided with Everton. The game was excellent until around the twentieth minute when the referee made a decision he should have nightmares about in that he sent off an Everton player who went for the ball and was not showing his studs and was his first offence. It is debatable if he had both feet off the ground when tackling the player. I am yet to find one critic observer who concurs with the decision he made and which radically changed the game thereafter. Later one of the commentators made the ridiculous assertion that both goals conceded were because of poor defence play rather than related to the team being down to 10 men as if it possible to separate the effects of the sending off from the rest of what then happened.
It was time for a walk in the haze warm sun and I decided to investigate if any of the local pubs and bars had found a way of relaying either of the regional team games live with Sunderland at home to West Brom and Newcastle away to Wolves. The first visit was to the Beehive, a building which it is easy to miss as a pub on the North West top of the hill. There was football but this was the end of the lunch time Sky game.
I then returned down the hill checking the Wetherspoons which appears to have stopped the TV but at the Mile, a converted club now into a restaurant bar there was one screen only with all seats taken showing the Newcastle game relayed by Sky to Spain, so this presumably is an official version arranged between the Pub and Sky for a fee. A little way further in the large building which once housed one of the famous USA chains they advertised showing the Sunderland game but as I had already heard they were two goals down in the first five minutes I decided against investigating further. I continued into the town centre and then returned home cutting a little of the hill by using the escalators at Morrison’s. By the time I returned Sunderland and scored the first of two goals, also in quick succession. Although both sides had opportunities 2.2 was the final score. Another unconvincing result while Newcastle continued from strength to strength with a convincing 2.1 win although the home side fought back hard as the game progressed. The result with Chelsea not playing until today is that Newcastle are a dizzy third in the table and Chelsea have to win to regain fourth spot while Sunderland are in mid table but struggling now without a home win for several games.
In the cricket the second game of Somerset was rained off so they only gained a point which could adversely affect their chances of getting to the semi finals. I was mistaken about the position of Leicestershire who did not get through the preliminary round.
There has been nothing amazing in the recent episodes of Do you think you know who you are? I did find three of the programmes of considerable interest.
Of the four personalities the latest Richard Madeley had a final twist. Richard and his wife Judy became the best known and loved couple on Television fronting magazine type programmes This Morning for the BBC and an evening version for ITV lasting 20 years. He started his career in news reporting for Radio Carlisle and then Yorkshire TV. He was married young at 21 and admits to being unfaithful during the marriage. He met Judy on the first day of Granada Reports and the couple have a son and a daughter with the daughter reaching the last stages of the Ice Dancing show with Torvill and Dean. The couple were associated with the first of the TV competition shows where it was exposed that people were encouraged to continue voting long after the winner had been picked. He was also arrested and charged for removing an items forma supermarket without payment but found not guilty due to a reported defence of absentmindedness.
Richards’s mother is Canadian by birth that came to the UK with her husband who had travelled there. She new something of her family background a couple of generations with the help of genealogists he was able to discover that his mother family was one of the earliest settlers in Nova Scotia and he met a well to do cousin who lives in a large house on a huge estate overlooking a lake. While the male line had come from England, this was not followed up as the interest moved to the wife and her father’s background in the United States and Boston where it was then discovered the man had been one of the earliest settlers coming on a Puritan convoy of ships and later converting to the religion one of the earliest baptismal records in the state. However he was then confronted with the reality that the man was known to have participated in a massacre of the indigenous population, Old men and women and their children at a hidden base camp while the fighting men were away. Richard who was taken up with the pioneering aspect of the discovering took a lot of time to sink in the enormity of the discovery that the relative had participated in genocide.
The first of quartet was Emilia Fox now in her mid thirties, an actress who was in the last stages of pregnancy as the programme progressed during the six months of research by the BBC and their contacts and the construction of the programme. Her father is the established and regarded actor Edward Fox and her uncle James Fox. She also has cousins who are actors. She is an educated woman through Bryanston School and Oxford University. In her comparatively young life she was married to the son of Richard Harris and the programme was able to record the birth of a girl in her relationship with Jeremy Gilley last year. She has had a good career in TV with various series and one off appearances.
In the first part of the programme she followed her acting background with sisters, both actresses, Hilda and Lily Hanbury and through them to the famous actress of her generation Ellen Terry. It was the story of her great grandfather Samson Fox which set the programme as one of more interesting of series. Samson had risen from being an assistant loom weaver into engineering were he had an obvious creative ability making a discovery which turned his small company into an internationally recognised and millionaire making concern. His discovery was to change the basic cylinder construction of steel drum of steam engines into one that was corrugated thus significantly improving its strength and safety.
The striking aspect was that Samson made a financial gift in the millions in today’s money which built the Royal College of Music and made an address of welcome to Monarch who opened the building. However he became shrouded in scandal when he was associated with the promotion of shares in a gas lighting system which led to accidents and death although the method once improved and restricted to non domestic uses became the mainstay of much street lighting for many decades. While nationally he was shunned by society in the town where he made his home Harrogate he remained highly regarded and as a benefactor financing the great Royal theatre there.
I cannot say I have ever been a fan of the Stand up Comedian Alan Carr. He is one of many Comedians who I do not find funny. Because of the programme I concluded that he is likeable individual, open and honest. He commenced the programme by taking an interest in the occupation of his father, professional football and who is now the chief scout at Newcastle United. He commenced with the grandfather who played two years for Newcastle 1928 to 1930 and then had a couple of years with West Bromwich when a knew injury sent him back to the pits in the North East were he worked for 35 years in total. A big change from the premier clubs players today. Before this the family had worked in the pits for generations.
It was when he looked into the history of his mother’s family that things became interesting, for reasons which it became evident his mother has not kept contact with her parental side of the family called Carter and Alan went to meet a great aunt who arranged a gathering of the Carters who cheered his arrival. The aunt was aware that the great grandmother had been married to someone called Lang with whom she had two children before living with another man called Carter. It was believed the family had called themselves Mercer.
What emerged proved to one of the fascinating stories of his series where one wishes it was possible to have learned if the assumptions now being made were valid. For Henry Carter had volunteered for the army before conscription was introduced but had deserted prior to the Battalion going to France as part of the 33rd regiment which then participated in all the great and bloody battles of a war in which half the participants were killed or severely injured. The battalion was a local one from a community which lives and worked together and one can imagine the pressure on the young man to participate but with the responsibility for four children and another on the way including more than one set of twins. The family had then moved to Crawford to join armament manufacturers where the workforce increased for fewer than 500 to over 14000 as the war ended. It was here that he and common law wife became Mrs Richard Mercer although interestingly the children were all registered as Carter and after the death of her first husband Mrs Mercer married and became Mrs Carter,
Because he had deserted at home the maximum sentence would have been two years with hard labour, but the secret was kept until the recent investigation. His eight sons all served in the Second World War and as Alan mentions, had the man gone to the war he may not have survived and his mother and he might never have been born. The other quirky aspect is that Alan had lived in house a few yards away from where the Carters/Mercers had their home.
The fourth episode covered the background of one third of the Bee Gees, Robin Gibb who lives with his family in a beautiful converted former Monastery in 20 acres in Oxfordshire but also at homes on the Isle of Man and Miami. The family originated in the Isle of Man but went to Australia in the 1950’s.
Returning to the UK he had a very successful career with twin brother and older brother. The twin Maurice was sometime married to Lulu and he died in 2003. Robin has continued to perform both with his elder brothers as the Bee Gees and as a solo artist and song writer. His first marriage with two children ended in 1980 although they had lived apart from a number of years. Before the marriage they had survived a train crash in which 49 people had died. His second wife is an author and artist and a follower of druidry.
On his father’s side he discovered a military background when similar to that of my mother’s grandfather the man has gained promotion, to be demoted and then regain his position before the end of his career. He then traced back to hand loom weaving of the famous Paisley shawls and to the struggle which the family encountered with the switch from handlooms to mechanical and became a victim of unemployment leading to the workhouse where he died.
The other story involved his great grandmother who had become a long serving midwife but had faced a major professional scandal which could have ended her career although she was highly regarded by doctors, other Midwife’s and hundreds of mothers who she had assisted. She was given a caution and reinstated on the basis of technicality decision taken in the best interests of a particular patient.
I was then able to find a bench overlooking the river mouth at ground level where I stayed reading and dozing for half an hour before walking towards the river entrance to take a closer look at a large container type ship as it was brought into dock by two pilot boats. There were plenty of people taking advantage of the fine weather, one group of students from the local further education college, some families, mothers with children and older citizens like me including several enjoying the view from the comfort of their cars in the car park adjacent to the river mouth area. I climbed up the tall sharp steps, slowly returning home about two hours later, enjoying a cooling drink and marvelling at the wonder of the belatedly summertime experience.
It was my second exercise of the day having got up early for a 500 metre swim although the sight of he new leisure complex at the bottom of the hill with walking add to recent uncertainty about continuing to remain a member of the Marriott over the Winter. I must explore costs and opening times at Temple Park in the meantime.
I did some writing although it was a struggle as I was not in the mood. It was another good food day after a visit to Asda where I had bought chickens and some fresh dish products only to have to return them to their racks on finding I had left all my credit cards at home. An assistant agreed to mind the trolley with the other items while I went back home for a card. I purchased two chickens for £7, a pair of Thai fishcakes, one of which I enjoyed for lunch with some scampi and baked beans. I bought two cartons of raspberries for £1 and some grapes, a packet of prawns in shell £4 using up most of the my other packet for a salad evening meal, two large jars of green olives with pimento at £1.36 each, A bottle of Asti Spumante for Christmas or possibly an earlier cause for celebration in in order to make use of the wine wrack in the new fridge and a giant pack of a dozen toilet rolls. I enjoyed a banana with custard after the salad in the evening watching the last of the American X factor auditions. I also watched one film, The Town.
Saturday October 1s,, one of the most important days in my annual calendar started energetically despite having made the decision not to go to the leisure in order to be able to go out an enjoy the weather and undertake a raft of activities. I had enjoyed reading the opening chapters of the Honourable Schoolboy until around 12.30 am and then had a mixed night waking after 7 having turned off the alarm.
I have made the decision to cancel my Marriott subscription and visit the Temple Park Centre for various reasons. I am not enjoying the experience as I have in the past and it continues to affects the rest of my day. I am not looking forward to the early starts with the approach of winter. There is the important financial consideration. There was the sight yesterday of the new development at the bottom of the hill within walking distance. I have checked the position at Temple Park and there is swimming available three mornings a week between 8 and 9 for adults. A six month pass including car parking costs £104 which works out which works out at £4 compared with £1,20 per session plus car parking charges although this will depend when the charge commences and where the fee is 70 pence all day but from what time. The other issue is that the cost of towels or does on have to provide ones own?
The first activity on coming downstairs was to return the books, maps, booklets, to the two book cases in the passage way before the day room. Taking the car out I watered all the plants noting the need to do a tidy and preparation for winter. Need to buy bulbs. Visit B and Q on Wednesday.
Before lunch I decided to update the file on leaflets offering Takeaways, Collects and Restaurants which not totals 94 separate enterprises although several have been closed and replaced during the past period of 3 years with 10 of the restaurants and 231 leaflets in total between 1 and 2 every week.
I watched an early morning hard fought battle between England and Scotland for a place in the last eight of the Rugby Union World Cup. Wilkinson did not have his kicking boots after being required to use the official ball with only two penalties from 5 and a drop goal. Scotland were the better team in the first half and England only appeared to function as a world beating unit in patches during the second half. They were always chasing the Scots with points on the board that needed a margin of six points to replace England as the team going through. With only 3 minutes of the match left England scored a try to put the result in beyond doubt taking the lead 16-12 as Ashton scored over the line and Flood who had come on for an injured Wilkinson converted. All the Scottish points came from penalties with two from Petersen and two from Parks.
Last night there was a last gasp defeat for Warrington in the semi final of the challenge cup. Leeds finish only 5th in the table and it is only the second time in the short history of the revised format that the team heading the table at the end of season has not made the final. Warrington was nervous and made mistakes whereas Leeds has looked stronger and more confident in every match they have played since losing the Cup Final. The final score was 24 to 26 for the visitors. Later on Saturday evening there was another upset when St Helens who finished third in the table bear Wigan who finished second thus for the first time neither of the top two reached the final next Saturday at Manchester.
Over a lunch of chicken wing and raspberries I watched the Merseyside Derby where traditionally I sided with Everton. The game was excellent until around the twentieth minute when the referee made a decision he should have nightmares about in that he sent off an Everton player who went for the ball and was not showing his studs and was his first offence. It is debatable if he had both feet off the ground when tackling the player. I am yet to find one critic observer who concurs with the decision he made and which radically changed the game thereafter. Later one of the commentators made the ridiculous assertion that both goals conceded were because of poor defence play rather than related to the team being down to 10 men as if it possible to separate the effects of the sending off from the rest of what then happened.
It was time for a walk in the haze warm sun and I decided to investigate if any of the local pubs and bars had found a way of relaying either of the regional team games live with Sunderland at home to West Brom and Newcastle away to Wolves. The first visit was to the Beehive, a building which it is easy to miss as a pub on the North West top of the hill. There was football but this was the end of the lunch time Sky game.
I then returned down the hill checking the Wetherspoons which appears to have stopped the TV but at the Mile, a converted club now into a restaurant bar there was one screen only with all seats taken showing the Newcastle game relayed by Sky to Spain, so this presumably is an official version arranged between the Pub and Sky for a fee. A little way further in the large building which once housed one of the famous USA chains they advertised showing the Sunderland game but as I had already heard they were two goals down in the first five minutes I decided against investigating further. I continued into the town centre and then returned home cutting a little of the hill by using the escalators at Morrison’s. By the time I returned Sunderland and scored the first of two goals, also in quick succession. Although both sides had opportunities 2.2 was the final score. Another unconvincing result while Newcastle continued from strength to strength with a convincing 2.1 win although the home side fought back hard as the game progressed. The result with Chelsea not playing until today is that Newcastle are a dizzy third in the table and Chelsea have to win to regain fourth spot while Sunderland are in mid table but struggling now without a home win for several games.
In the cricket the second game of Somerset was rained off so they only gained a point which could adversely affect their chances of getting to the semi finals. I was mistaken about the position of Leicestershire who did not get through the preliminary round.
There has been nothing amazing in the recent episodes of Do you think you know who you are? I did find three of the programmes of considerable interest.
Of the four personalities the latest Richard Madeley had a final twist. Richard and his wife Judy became the best known and loved couple on Television fronting magazine type programmes This Morning for the BBC and an evening version for ITV lasting 20 years. He started his career in news reporting for Radio Carlisle and then Yorkshire TV. He was married young at 21 and admits to being unfaithful during the marriage. He met Judy on the first day of Granada Reports and the couple have a son and a daughter with the daughter reaching the last stages of the Ice Dancing show with Torvill and Dean. The couple were associated with the first of the TV competition shows where it was exposed that people were encouraged to continue voting long after the winner had been picked. He was also arrested and charged for removing an items forma supermarket without payment but found not guilty due to a reported defence of absentmindedness.
Richards’s mother is Canadian by birth that came to the UK with her husband who had travelled there. She new something of her family background a couple of generations with the help of genealogists he was able to discover that his mother family was one of the earliest settlers in Nova Scotia and he met a well to do cousin who lives in a large house on a huge estate overlooking a lake. While the male line had come from England, this was not followed up as the interest moved to the wife and her father’s background in the United States and Boston where it was then discovered the man had been one of the earliest settlers coming on a Puritan convoy of ships and later converting to the religion one of the earliest baptismal records in the state. However he was then confronted with the reality that the man was known to have participated in a massacre of the indigenous population, Old men and women and their children at a hidden base camp while the fighting men were away. Richard who was taken up with the pioneering aspect of the discovering took a lot of time to sink in the enormity of the discovery that the relative had participated in genocide.
The first of quartet was Emilia Fox now in her mid thirties, an actress who was in the last stages of pregnancy as the programme progressed during the six months of research by the BBC and their contacts and the construction of the programme. Her father is the established and regarded actor Edward Fox and her uncle James Fox. She also has cousins who are actors. She is an educated woman through Bryanston School and Oxford University. In her comparatively young life she was married to the son of Richard Harris and the programme was able to record the birth of a girl in her relationship with Jeremy Gilley last year. She has had a good career in TV with various series and one off appearances.
In the first part of the programme she followed her acting background with sisters, both actresses, Hilda and Lily Hanbury and through them to the famous actress of her generation Ellen Terry. It was the story of her great grandfather Samson Fox which set the programme as one of more interesting of series. Samson had risen from being an assistant loom weaver into engineering were he had an obvious creative ability making a discovery which turned his small company into an internationally recognised and millionaire making concern. His discovery was to change the basic cylinder construction of steel drum of steam engines into one that was corrugated thus significantly improving its strength and safety.
The striking aspect was that Samson made a financial gift in the millions in today’s money which built the Royal College of Music and made an address of welcome to Monarch who opened the building. However he became shrouded in scandal when he was associated with the promotion of shares in a gas lighting system which led to accidents and death although the method once improved and restricted to non domestic uses became the mainstay of much street lighting for many decades. While nationally he was shunned by society in the town where he made his home Harrogate he remained highly regarded and as a benefactor financing the great Royal theatre there.
I cannot say I have ever been a fan of the Stand up Comedian Alan Carr. He is one of many Comedians who I do not find funny. Because of the programme I concluded that he is likeable individual, open and honest. He commenced the programme by taking an interest in the occupation of his father, professional football and who is now the chief scout at Newcastle United. He commenced with the grandfather who played two years for Newcastle 1928 to 1930 and then had a couple of years with West Bromwich when a knew injury sent him back to the pits in the North East were he worked for 35 years in total. A big change from the premier clubs players today. Before this the family had worked in the pits for generations.
It was when he looked into the history of his mother’s family that things became interesting, for reasons which it became evident his mother has not kept contact with her parental side of the family called Carter and Alan went to meet a great aunt who arranged a gathering of the Carters who cheered his arrival. The aunt was aware that the great grandmother had been married to someone called Lang with whom she had two children before living with another man called Carter. It was believed the family had called themselves Mercer.
What emerged proved to one of the fascinating stories of his series where one wishes it was possible to have learned if the assumptions now being made were valid. For Henry Carter had volunteered for the army before conscription was introduced but had deserted prior to the Battalion going to France as part of the 33rd regiment which then participated in all the great and bloody battles of a war in which half the participants were killed or severely injured. The battalion was a local one from a community which lives and worked together and one can imagine the pressure on the young man to participate but with the responsibility for four children and another on the way including more than one set of twins. The family had then moved to Crawford to join armament manufacturers where the workforce increased for fewer than 500 to over 14000 as the war ended. It was here that he and common law wife became Mrs Richard Mercer although interestingly the children were all registered as Carter and after the death of her first husband Mrs Mercer married and became Mrs Carter,
Because he had deserted at home the maximum sentence would have been two years with hard labour, but the secret was kept until the recent investigation. His eight sons all served in the Second World War and as Alan mentions, had the man gone to the war he may not have survived and his mother and he might never have been born. The other quirky aspect is that Alan had lived in house a few yards away from where the Carters/Mercers had their home.
The fourth episode covered the background of one third of the Bee Gees, Robin Gibb who lives with his family in a beautiful converted former Monastery in 20 acres in Oxfordshire but also at homes on the Isle of Man and Miami. The family originated in the Isle of Man but went to Australia in the 1950’s.
Returning to the UK he had a very successful career with twin brother and older brother. The twin Maurice was sometime married to Lulu and he died in 2003. Robin has continued to perform both with his elder brothers as the Bee Gees and as a solo artist and song writer. His first marriage with two children ended in 1980 although they had lived apart from a number of years. Before the marriage they had survived a train crash in which 49 people had died. His second wife is an author and artist and a follower of druidry.
On his father’s side he discovered a military background when similar to that of my mother’s grandfather the man has gained promotion, to be demoted and then regain his position before the end of his career. He then traced back to hand loom weaving of the famous Paisley shawls and to the struggle which the family encountered with the switch from handlooms to mechanical and became a victim of unemployment leading to the workhouse where he died.
The other story involved his great grandmother who had become a long serving midwife but had faced a major professional scandal which could have ended her career although she was highly regarded by doctors, other Midwife’s and hundreds of mothers who she had assisted. She was given a caution and reinstated on the basis of technicality decision taken in the best interests of a particular patient.
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