Stevenson Family Tree

Used to drive an Austin A30 - Andrew Stevenson recounted a story about them all going to Dovedale for a picnic in it!

Registration - WNU 289 (2 Door, Gray)

I can remember Auntie Pegg very well for saying I was only 10 years old when she died. Pat looks quite like her now . We saw quite a few photos of her at John Baddiley's last week and, I must say, it brought back quite a few memories of her for me. Janet Musson reminds me of her too. I think she was engaged at one point but Grandad Baddiley didn't like her intended so the marriage didn't go ahead!!! So she was a spinster until she died.

I always liked to go up to her bedroom at Granny's as it always smelt of Yardley Freesia. That was a nice smell to a young girl. I used to love to look at her things on the dressing table and unit. She always knew I wouldn't touch anything and was quite happy to let me browse. On the few occasions that we girls stayed at Granny's we were always looked after well. We always slept in the back bedroom and were given hot milk for a supper drink. Ugh.

She was very kind in that she took us all to the seaside in Summer. No wonder we were all sick into our new seaside buckets on the journey. The police would have run us in now with overcrowding the car as they did. We were like sardines. But appreciated an aunt taking us.

It was very sad when she developed Cancer. After the operation she moved into Granny's front bedroom for easier nursing. I often used to go down after school, or in the evening to see her while she was convalescing. I can remember Ann Saxby went with me once and she was quite frightened to see her with a patch over her eye and hardly any hair.

At least she lived to see you. Your first trip out at two weeks' old was when Dad collected us from Sunday school in Potter Street and we pushed you down in your spanking new pram to Granny's. We were so proud. You were still a small baby when Auntie Peg died. I can remember Dad coming in to tell us all she'd gone. He sat in the wooden chair by the table and pantry door. First time I'd seen him upset . So I was ten years old when she went, Mary would be 12 and Pat about eight.