Notes for Roy Cheverton Ball: Only surviving son, younger brother Eric died as a result of accident on a bicycle when a rope stretched across the pavement fetched him off his bike. Lived at 'Rickthorne' (possibly over by Bridgenorth way), Penn Rd by the Royal School, Lower Stafford St (whitewashed houses past Co-Op and coal wharf) and Dickens Rd (2nd or 3rd house on right from Pope Rd). During the war Aunt Nance (Annie Thomas) said that dad had 'a number' of jobs, working at one point with Tom Critchlow and Brian Jordan down the Birmingham Rd in Wolverhampton. Was an enthusiastic collector of classical recordings, mostly in the form of long playing records, reel-to-reel tapes and latterly cassettes, was very fond of orchestral pieces. Like his father before him, always interested in the 'technology' of the day. Had one of the first television sets (a PILOT Jack) for the transmission of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. As a young man bicycled far, turned to motorcycles and combination's as the family arrived, then onto Reliant three wheeled cars. When his son Eric passed his driving test in 1965 he insisted that he would pass his own. This he did and then had a procession of cars starting with a grey Austin A30 van. Travelled abroad only once, a holiday with his wife Clara in 1981 (?) when they visited Germany and the Rhine valley. Oak tree to his and Clara's memory planted in the orchard of Boscobel House (English Heritage site) January 1995.
More About Roy Cheverton Ball and Clara Dorothy Thomas: Marriage: 3 Jun 1944, St Mary's Church Bushbury Wolverhampton.
Children of Roy Cheverton Ball and Clara Dorothy Thomas are:
Roy Cheverton Ball (b. 11 Jul 1921, d. 23 Aug 1982)
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