W B
Harris – This your life – Part One
1910 - Your story begins at 8.50 a.m. on Wednesday, 13th April, 1910, for
you were born at number four, Causeway Cottages,
Here you are, pictured as a baby and
with what a winning smile!
As you grew up in East Finchley, you
attended the state elementary and secondary schools, and
worshipped at
You might recognize the next two
photographs which show you at opposite ends of childhood: firstly when you were
two years old … and secondly as a young teenager with your parents.
In 1924 your family moved to Stony
Stratford, Buckinghamshire, and for the rest of your school career you went
to
At the age of seventeen you left
school and went to work in your father’s printing business where you stayed for
five years. The business was situated in the High Street at Stony Stratford and
we understand, from sources who shall be nameless, that one of your jobs was
that of ushering visitors to the door with your father’s request of -
“Walter,
see this gentleman off the premises”.
This remark was made, not to me, but to my
father, when he was apprenticed there, and concerned the “gentlemen of the
road” who used to call.
At Stony Stratford you took the Sunday School at Deanshanger, and later
on were baptised by the Rev. John Haydon. Here is a photograph of you taken
around that time.
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