Posted by Adam Quinan on January 02, 2012 at 12:02:02 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Cruising the Broads posted by Andy on December 28, 2011 at 04:14:01:
A few years ago, my father found an old photograph from when he was staying with his grandparents who were living in retirement in Torquay in the summer of 1926. It showed five children on the beach. My father and his two cousins and my mother and her younger sister. My mother's grandparents also retired to Torquay and the families were acquainted with each other. My father did not see my mother again for nearly 25 years when they met again as his parents and her parents had also retired near each other in Somerset.
Of the five children two had died before I was born, one in a aircraft crash while serving in the Fleet Air Arm and the other, my mother's sister of tuberculosis contracted before antibiotics became available to the general public. Death was more common among the young back then, no matter what we may think from the media today. I wonder if all the S,A and Ds would have made it into middle age.