I have my car, booked to have a new silencer made and fitted. It's some distance from home, so I looked it up on Googlearth, to make it easier to find. Checking the map out, I realised that the last time I'd been in the area, was as a youngster.....
When I was quite young, my father had a motorbike and sidecar, but very few tools. If he needed tools, or often just to socialise, he would drive over to 'Uncle Don's' garage. The garage/car repair business, was up a rough track, the garage a large rambling shack of a place, surrounded by scrap cars, floor covered in grease, but always busy.
Just Don, and an Irish guy working there. In those days, you always called adults, uncle or aunt, so I never knew whether these people were, or were not, related. Though I have wondered ever since, what the relationship was, friend or relative. My father, was on minesweepers, during the war, so Don might have been a friend from those days. I investigated, my family tree a while ago, and no Don(ald) appeared on that.
The past few days, I have been inquiring on a local FB group, see if anyone might remember an old garage, in that area, operated by a Don, with an Irishman helping him. Bingo - a woman in the group, remembered the place, and had played with his daughter as a child, and even managed to remember his surname.
When I was quite young, my father had a motorbike and sidecar, but very few tools. If he needed tools, or often just to socialise, he would drive over to 'Uncle Don's' garage. The garage/car repair business, was up a rough track, the garage a large rambling shack of a place, surrounded by scrap cars, floor covered in grease, but always busy.
Just Don, and an Irish guy working there. In those days, you always called adults, uncle or aunt, so I never knew whether these people were, or were not, related. Though I have wondered ever since, what the relationship was, friend or relative. My father, was on minesweepers, during the war, so Don might have been a friend from those days. I investigated, my family tree a while ago, and no Don(ald) appeared on that.
The past few days, I have been inquiring on a local FB group, see if anyone might remember an old garage, in that area, operated by a Don, with an Irishman helping him. Bingo - a woman in the group, remembered the place, and had played with his daughter as a child, and even managed to remember his surname.
