And so their story began.

It was post war England, rationing and a sense of victory over evil.

Arthur had been demobbed, given his suit and suitcase.

After his "demob", Arthur was employed as a french polisher and recounted the times when he would travel to Liverpool docks to work on ships of the Cunard line. This was a time when the Liverpool overhead railway was in operation, the trains running from Seaforth to the Dingle. The usual job involved a quick turnover on the incoming ships, a wash down and the repair and fixing of numerous listed problems on the woodwork.

Dorothy working in a Liverpool Hairdressing salon, met this young man at the Grafton Club one weekend, she subsequently turned down the lucrative Cruise ship hairdresser job for this likely lad from Huyton and their long journey together was about to begin.


Here a picture from 1948, a holiday in Wales.