An introduction

I was born on 7th April 1951 in Farnham Hospital.
My mother was Ivy Radford and was a maternity nurse at the hospital before I was born. She returned to maternity nursing at the hospital later after my sister Gillian was born two years later at home.

My father, Frederick William Charles, was a building labourer. He was blind in one eye from childhood and had hands like shovells. He thought that he would be exempt from military service during the war. Wrong! He was made a male nurse! He was in the first medical unit to reach Belson POW camp. He left home whenI was about 9 and went back to his mother! It took many years for me to forgive that. To show you how things change the allowance that he paid for my sister and myself was £5 a week for the two of us, ie £2.50 each!

This blog is still under construction I will add to it as time allows.

Martin William.