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Barnes Family 1: 1948, Rosemary Hill Road

Filmed circa 1948 at the Barnes family home at 58 Rosemary Hill Road, Streetly, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. Many thanks to Judy for the following detailed recollection of events in this clip: Marshall and Shirley, the youngest of the six Cox sisters, sawing a tree down with the four children helping them to pull on the rope to fell it: Judy about 8 years, Jeremy 6 years, Jen 4 or 5 and Hil about 3. The four of us and Jeremy’s girlfriend, Wendy Edwards (with hairband) sitting in a circle pouring drinks. Glen Kitchen, Hil’s boyfriend wheeling a pram in the background. He lived next door but one to us. He had hair even blonder than Hil’s and was often round at our house. Judy and Jeremy swinging on a tyre. Ethel and Daddy digging the back garden. Ethel was Mum’s helper. She came to our family from Walsall (I think) when Hil was born and Mum had we 4 children under 5 years of age. Ethel was only 14 when she first arrived and had left school. Mum taught her how to open a Post Office savings book and thus acquire good financial acumen. Ethel seems to have loved her time with our family. She stayed about five years before marrying Frank and moving to Colne in Lancashire. We kept in touch with her until she died two years ago. Hil and I went to her funeral in Colne. Jen and Hil blowing bubbles. Glen now riding a tricycle behind them. In the front garden, Mum’s Hillman car. In the back garden, playing rounders with Daddy, Mum and Granny and Grandpa Cox. I’d guess they were staying with us at the time. They used to live in Kenton, London and then in Wokingham. And some memories from Jenny: We often had other children playing in the garden with us, so we see Wendy Edwards, with us in the sandpit, (which Daddy had built over the air raid shelter in the garden). Jer liked Wendy a lot, especially when older. She didn’t live all that near, so I’m not sure how we got to know her. Granny Cox and Grandpa Cox are also seen in this film. Granny, an excellent seamstress, made us three girls some very pretty, smocked blouses out of surplus parachute material. Unfortunately, she became very overweight as she grew older and died in 1964 of a fatty heart, aged only 70. Grandpa, who teased her mercilessly, used to say he’d render her down to make dripping!