Bought from the scrap yard at the end of our road and not in very good shape. Like the previous MZ, a full-sized bike but this time only a 125. I kept it in France for a while – for popping up to the baker’s for instance. One day. on just such a journey I arrived at a good lick and had to mount the dropped kerb in front of the shop which was less dropped than I had thought … the front wheel jumped off it and we slid along the (happily!) empty parking area., coming to a halt in front of the shop. Now this is quite a noisy business and I am sure everybody with 100 yards would have been aware of it. However, picking myself up, dusting myself off, etc., I went in to buy my loaf. Normally in France, everybody in the shop would say “Bonjour” … Not today: they all stared fixedly in front of them!
One of the odd things I have observed, having done this several (too many!) times, is how your trousers seem unaffected but your legs are cut to ribbons underneath them. Interesting – must say something about the trousers, I guess …
Can’t recall what became of it, I am afraid.
Peter Robert Turnill, third and youngest son of Joan, b 1/5/1947, m 19/10/1971
Little more than a shed! The picture shows it in 1982 shortly before we demolished it. The house to the left was built by Joan and occupies half the plot they bought in 1952. They had about 2/3 of an acre of ground.
Margaret Ianthe ? ? Hanson, first child of Derwent & Margaret, b ??/??/1942, m ????? d ??/??/2008? Ellen holds Ianthe – taken 1/3/43
Richard Brian Turnill, first child of Joan & Victor, b 23/10/1942, d 12/1/1961. Douglas must have got lost somewhere.
They certainly did …
Derwent George Cooper Hanson was their 3rd child, born 8/9/1918, and thus just 21 at the start of the war. Died ??/??/??
Margaret Williams, born ??????,
