Hi Karen I have put a few comments on but could not remember so I asked my mom wife of Henry. We used to call in to your house on the Cannock road near All Faiths School on the way home to Milton Road. Mom is sure we went to the same nursery which was on the corner of Milton Road and Bushbury Lane. Mom was very fond of your parents and said they where very nice people, she also tells me that she used to help out sometimes at the school your mom worked at somewhere near the pear tree. Sometime in the mid sixties we were on holiday in Torbay and called in to see you I have vague memories but can recall sitting in your café with a bottle of 7up then we were off and found a rope swing over a stream, fleeting I know.
Mom still remembers quite well but still does not know half of them.
The Reynolds originally come from Monmore Green Then moved to 13 Kipling Road Three Tuns. Grandad was effected from gas in the somme which eventually killed him and yes nan was a bookies runner also worked at the woodbine pub, she was a hard worker. Eight kids George, Sammy, Bill(snowball), Henry, Anna, Charlie, Hilda, Ronnie.
The lads started there boxing in the fair grounds and trace some of there boxing history.
George had six girls Elsie, Doreen, Christeen, Marion, Audrey, Phylis. Only know Elsie because I lived over the road and went to school with her sons John and Stephen, also had two more sons David and Darren.
Sammy was a professional Boxer and was quite successful, he married Gert who already had a son, they had a son David, I remember Sam and often went to his pub the Hatherton near the Molineux.
Bill(snowball) married to Phylis died young and lived just off Bushbury Lane. They had one daughter Valerie who moved to Albrighton.
Anna married reg who was Scottish, he served in Burma and died young. One Daughter Hilda
Hilda married Tom lived at Three Tuns sons Roy and John still have a photo of me and Roy on the beach at Weymouth.
Ronnie the youngest still remember him, just, he had a pub in Horsley fields, a real one with bar lounge snug and smoke room.
Charlie and Ireen
My dad Henry who most people called Harry, dad had a short boxing career, still recall going to Dudley near Wrens nest and building a ring in a field, I was more interested in going down the caves,
He was in the referees association and Sunday mornings I was out somewhere with him at a game. He also had his own butchery business in Willenhall where i used to help out weekends and do deliveries. He was also connected to the Molineux in some capacity, I did start to play there but a career in football did not pay well and short, should of done it, having a drink with Dougan was not enough.
Before I forget I have a sister Linda another cousin.
Mom is 89 now, she has done well to remember.
Neil