Here's a picture of my Grandad and Nanna Price. The photo itself was taken with a camera that they'd just given me for my 18th Birthday.Their full names are George Price and Amy
Price (nee Yearley). Unfortunately Grandad died while I was working away in London in the late summer of 1995. Nanna still lives in Grimsby.
Nanna & Grandad
Burns
Here's my Nanna and Grandad on my mum's side Terry and Iris Burns.
Although Terry is not my blood-line Granfather, as my mum's real dad died when mum was thirteen, I've grown up with him as my Grandad. Nan has been very unfortunate as she was widowed twice before.
Altogether my mum grew up one older sister, Sue, and three younger sisters, Julie, Christine and Debbie and a younger brother, Terry.
Here's dad in his glory days complete with drainpipes (I'm talking about the trousers.) He was born on the 3rd March 1946 in Grimsby.
At the age of 15 he left home to join the army due to domestic difficulty with his father (It's funny how history repeats itself.) While stationed in Wiltshire he met and married his first wife, Kay. The marriage did not last however and he returned to Grimsby in the late '60s leaving behind two children, John and Kim, my half brother and sister. After returning to Grimsby and working at the Birds Eye frozen fish factory he met my mum and the rest, as they say is history. He now works at the Connoco chemical plant just outside Grimsby. Previously he'd worked at Peoples Park in Grimsby, on parks and lighting for Grimsby council and was head gardener at Courtaulds Chemicals, Grimsby until the factory put most jobs out to contractors to save on wages. His hobbies are gardening and woodwork. He is extremely dextrous and able to create amazing things with basic materials.
Dad. Stanley Jack Price
John and Kim are my half brother and sister from my dad's first marriage to Kay. John was born on 21st. Nov.'66 and Kim on 13th. Sept.'68 in Corsham Wilts.
As a child I never knew that I'd even got a brother and it was when I was sixteen I went downstairs one morning and my mum told me that she'd received a letter from Mrs. Knowles, John and Kim's grandmother, saying that now Kim was eighteen it was legally possible for dad to get in touch with them. Also was the news that John was a father of a baby boy, Jamie, with his girlfriend Tammy.It took me completely by surprise.
If you've ever heard about one of those brother/sister relationships where you just don't leave sharp instruments lying about then this would be it. Of course it's gotten better now I'm two thirds of the globe away and Tracey is married.
As mum hadn't read my E-mail carefully enough she hadn't got my telephone number in Pusan, South Korea so it was by chance that I phoned home and found out about it myself. It was hush-hush so that Vic didn't find out but obviously I was annoyed to find out about it two days before the ceremony. Just a little too little time to fly from Pusan to Seoul to Hong Kong to London AND make my way to Grimsby.
