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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson
When I was a little lad attending St John's in the late 40s. my dad worked at Whittaker's foundry in Dowry St. In the office worked a man who was a friend of my dad's - Bill Birtwell, who I called Uncle Bill. He lived at 27 Ramsbottom St. with his father. Bill was a single man who came from the Huncoat Birtwells.He never married. He drove an Austin 10 car, Regd No HDH 315. He was considered "well off" I suspect that he held a senior piosition in the firm. I will ask my aunt about him.
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I need to phone Mum in Pennsylvania and rattle her cage about this. I'm sure I can get more information if I jog her memory a bit.
He was called "Clifford" (his middle name) and his sister, Nellie, may have had Down's Syndrome.
[Funny, that's what we did with close family friends: our family had friends on Dill Hall Lane whom I called "
Uncle Bill and Aunty Edith". It was a long time before I found out that they weren't really related to us. Last name 'Howarth'.]