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- Thomas George Archer Eachus, My Father, Born in 1913 in Hindley, Wigan. He met my Mother whilst spending his leasure time in Manchester City Centre, She loved to go dancing and that's how they met. He was listed as a Window Cleaner on his marriage certificate, Almost immediately after his marriage in 1939 he went off to fight in WW2, he fought in Eygpt, and later in Burma where he had a bad time fighting the Japanese. He would never talk about the war no matter how many times I asked him. but he hated the Japanese till the day he died and would have nothing Japanese in the house. He returned home in 1946, and I was born in 1947.
He was a great one for do it yourself, and used to develop his own photo's. after he developed them he would put them on a sheet of glass infront of the fire, when they fell off they were dry. He used the fire for lots of things, If he wanted to drill a hole in a piece of wood for example, he would place a metal poka in the fire untill it was red hot, and then burn the hole in the wood, a lot less effort than drilling it. I always remember how he lit the fire every morning. he would place old newspapers on the grate first then wood and then pile it up with coal. then he would lite the paper, put a metal shuvel in front and cover the whole thing with an open piece of newspaper, when the paper went up in flames the fire was lit. he would then put the hot shuvel back outside the back door, untill the next day.
Census Listings:
1921 51 Thickness Avenue, Beechill, Wigan . son, age 8 yrs 2 months. full time school. (S 7)
1939 109 Gloucester Road, Droylsden. (mar). born 16th April 1913, Window Cleaner (P 81)
Residence;
1913 3 Stanley Road, Hindley, Wigan.
1915-1939 Thickness Ave, Beech Hill, Wigan
1939-1981 109 Gloucester Rd, Droylsden
Occupations;
1939 Window Cleaner
War Years (Welsh Regiment) , Driving Instructor, Mechanic
1946-1981 Maintanence Engineer.
Cause of death Broncho pneumonia, chronic bronchitis
Worked for CWS at Baloon St, Manchester and later at Robinson's Engineering
at Bradford, Manchester
served in WW2 (1939-1946) Welsh Regiment,spent time in India & Burma
Archive;
photo (PIC 1/2)
Medical Treatment after leaving Military Dispersal Unit Form (MC 2/7)
Papers relating to war years including Soldiers Service and Pay Book. (MR 3-12)
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