He had an abiding interest in industrial archaeology including mining and quarries and narrow-gauge railways, particularly the Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales. He worked his way up the grades to become shipping and transport manager before retiring from a role at Red Star Parcels.Īndrew had a keen interest in transport which reached beyond his work and into photography, supplying many photographs which were incorporated into books. For the next 27 years Andrew worked for British Rail Ferries/Sealink, based at Dover Western Docks and Folkestone. After leaving school Andrew worked in the East Kent coalfields for four years, gaining qualifications in the mining industry. After another family move he finished his schooling at Dover Grammar School for Boys.

The family moved to Wales where Andrew attended Holyhead County School. Ivy died on 20th August 2020.Īndrew Glyn Jones was born on 3 rd October 1938 to Ellen and Evan Jones in Morecambe, Lancashire. Ivy welcomed her children’s partners, Robert, Cheryl and Diane into the family and was grandma or Nannan to Mark, Robert, Paul, Colette, Lewis and Jo, as well as great-grandma to Jake, Megan, Bertie, Jessica, Harvey and Tommy. She met Reg Chapman on a blind date in 1973, they married in 1974 and were very happy together until Reg died in 2003. George suffered a severe stroke aged 35 and Ivy worked hard to support the family. She met her first husband, George Alan Reynolds at Gilbow’s, they married on December 26th 1953 and had three children, Linda, Pete and Alan Malcolm. Ivy went to Meynell Road School until she was fifteen when she went to work at Burdall’s, and later variously at Swann-Moreton, Bassett’s, Hadfield’s and then at Bass Charrington until early retirement in 1983. She grew up there and then from 1938, in Parson Cross, with her brothers and sisters, Walter, Fred, Joe, Arnold, Bryan and Alan, and her big sister Winnie, though Walter died at an early age. Ada Ivy Damms, Ivy, was born on 18th December 1932 at 6 Court, Apple St, Neepsend, Sheffield the third child of eight to Arnold and Gertrude.

Death by Arrogance by Bruce E. Dunn