Fantastic post Kilburn. RIP your Grandfather and your Father. We can have a little toast to their memory in 12 days time. Looking forward to it.
I was at a service at Notre Dame today, very poignant. Annoying tourists shuffled around making noise during the minutes silence.
My family's three generations of R's:- My Grandfather (1916) My Father, Grandfather & Grandmother (1936) My Father, Mother & Grandfather (1941) Myself (Oct 2013) - the 3rd gen was lucky enough to miss a world war.
On the bloody money ... I wouldn't have any of them there and many recent politicians need jailing ... Look up who is involved in arms dealing Sick ****ers I am not ever forgetting that
You lot don't know how lucky you are! We must have the worst cabbies in the world here, I generally end up giving them directions.
Sorry about that, I did have to re-size the photos to the max allowed # of bytes - after I posted, I could open them myself, but now I see they are not available, contact an administrator message - will try again later.
Just saw your pictures now Kilburn. You can definitely see the family resemblance between the three generations. It is great you were all QPR supporters. Nine days or so till you fly to London. You must be getting excited.
Great pics Kilburn. I can imagine your dad and grandad down the old White City ground (??), in their ties, jackets and cloth caps. Brilliant !!
Yes, I remember Dad telling me about the R's White City "experiment", and how they were so far away from the pitch. I believe 1925 - 1939 that the pair of them probably attended most of the R's home games, and likely a few London away derbies. My Dad was an only child (as was his Dad), so likely it was quite the occasion for both of them when they attended their first R's match together. I recall Dad indicating (when he came of age) that they would quite often have a pre-match beer together at a local pub. Back then my Grandfather worked as a clerk in a City of London stockbroker's office, and I have a photo of him coaching that firm's football team.
Kilburn, great pictures and stories. Why not send your picture to the e-bay chap? Might have your programs sooner than you think.....
With you on that. My father's two brothers were killed and my father lost an eye in the WW. My mother's only brother went missing presumed dead and my grandmother was wounded driving an ambulance. The volunteer soldiers of today do not deserve to be placed alongside the poor conscripts of yesteryear. Spoken as the son of a career soldier himself the son of a career soldier/thief/criminal.
But I would prefer to bring you lot along for some extra muscle & moral support! My problematic football programme seller is probably just a wee little man in his basement, with stacks upon stacks of programmes piled up down there.
Whilst researching my family tree, lots of stories are emerging about ancestors involved in both world wars, such as my Great Uncle, Cornelius Cannon, who was killed when his bomber was shot down over Germany in 1943, my Grandfather, who survived a full tour (and more) as a tail gunner in Stirlings and Lancasters, and some more distant relatives from WW1, one of whom was a driver in the Royal Field Artillery and saw action at Arras, Vimy Ridge and other places, and another (his brother) who was a littl younger but spent eighteen months in Germany as part of the Army of Occupation after 1918. Saturday night my band played a benefit gig for the Royal British Legion (we actually did Live Band Jukebox, where people paid to hear songs from a list of a hundred covers) and raised over a grand for this years Poppy Appeal.
