HOWARD FAMILY PHOTOS

Grandad was a painter and decorator there is a photo of him in his whites elsewhere on the site. He worked mainly in Seaford according to my cousin, he used to have a hand-cart that he pushed loaded with his paint. Imagine pushing it to Seaford and back every day. He was brought up in Fulham. I don't know when he moved to Newhaven. My Gran came from Brighton and that's about all we know. Dad said that she was related to Maurice Tate the Sussex and England cricketer but neither my brother Peter nor me can find any connection to him. Uncle Bob was a captain in the army during the war and went on to work for Huntly and Palmer as a rep. He was into clocks and was always telling us what to look for. His wife Eva's maiden name was Pope. Roger their son told me she was from the Rye area and related to the Pope family who lost men in the Mary Stanford lifeboat disaster of 1928. Aunt Rose, as I said, worked for Parker Pen for as long as I can remember. My mother was born in a little village called Odell in Bedfordshire. Our Bungalow in Acacia Road, Denton was called Odell and when I  went past there a couple of weeks ago it still is. I think Dad was posted to Northampton for training and that is where they met and later married at The Holy Sepulchre Church. The funny thing is that our vicar here at Westfield was at that same church. I was also born in Odell a month early while mum was visiting her sister. Mum and Dad first lived in Third Avenue, then the High Street moving to Northdown Road as it was finished , then to Acacia Road Denton. I think we moved there in 55 or 56. Again the place was newly built. Then onto Wellington Road in about 1962.