My memories of my grandfather are fairly vague, the first was being allowed to mop up his plate of bacon and eggs while sitting on his lap. He was living with us in Water Lane, Brixton., or possibly, we were living with him.I must then have been about 2 or 3.The house was later demolished by one of Herr Hitlers bombs. I don't really remember him again until he came to live with us in Clapham. There he caused allsorts of hassle. A very selfish, chauvinistic man, he expected my mother to wait on him hand and foot. My father hated him living with us and the way he criticised mum and really tried to rule the roost. I can't say I liked him but I certainly admired his craftmanship, and I wished to hell I'd asked more questions. He'd spent time at sea and, according to his son Geoffrey had visited Australia.
These notes are from a previous set I'd done earlier.... A martinet is the word that springs most readily to mind when I think about him. He treated my mother, and by extension, all of us, very badly. he must have been fully aware of the stress he put us all under. He caused colossal friction between mum and dad. Mum tried to be loyal to 'Granfer' but it was an uphill struggle. When he retired he went to live with Hilda, his daughter, and her family in Luton. After that with us in Clapham.
What was he doing in Willesden?
More About George Parker: Burial: 4 April 1956, Streatham Vale.
More About George Parker and Alice Elizabeth Chick: Marriage: 4 April 1903, Southwark Register Office, Southwark, London..
Children of George Parker and Alice Elizabeth Chick are:
+Hilda Marion Parker, b. 11 October 1913, 104 Falmouth Road, New Kent Road, London., d. 17 August 1956, My Folly, Dunstable Road, Luton, Bedfordshire..
George Parker (b. 11 January 1879, d. 29 March 1956)
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