This is me Nobby Nobody (1st diary entry)

I was born 4 days before the Matthews Final (a 50's child) in the market town of Beverley (the Old Tin Cow) in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Some say I was born on the wrong side of the railway lines that divides the east (the council estates, my side) from the west (the more affluent side of the town).

My dad was a Beverley lad & a WII veteran who saw action in North Africa & Italy.

My mum was born in Cloughton near Scarborough (North Yorkshire) but she grew up in Kilham near Driffield.

There was 16 years difference in their ages, my dad being the older.


 My 1st photograph

I was conceived out of wedlock & that is why they got married. I was born premature weighing in about 4 lb (about 2 bags of sugar),but I survived to tell this tale!


 My baby sister came along 2 1/2 year later much to my surprise & annoyance. It would be the start of sibling rivalry.

I will tell some of the tales I got up to with my little sister & I wasn't the little cherub you see on those photos.

Life was never dull despite the poverty of a working class family.

Our pockets were empty but our life was full of adventure, wonder in post war Britain.

Who needs money when the world is your oyster!