Marilyn’s Profile
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Penny Lane
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Hi, I am
Marilyn, eldest of the girls and third of the ten children, born on 8th.
September 1948 in I went to
Greetby Hill Infants and I can’t
remember much about my childhood but I remember Edith McRae used to take me
to school when I first started, I also caught yellow jaundice one year in May
and that kept me off school till the summer holidays started that gave me an
extra six weeks hols, nice one. My friend at
school was Susan Ross we used to walk to school together through what was
known as the ‘Pads’. I have found a photo of me taken with Mr Tinsley and the
foreign student Miss Chew, somebody could have told me my cardigan was
buttoned up wrong. At 11 I failed my eleven plus like all
the rest of the family, but Susan passed so she went on to the Grammar School
and I went To Wigan Road Secondry Modern. There I met Linda Poole whose
friend from Greetby Hill also passed the exams, so together friendless we ended
up as best friends, we are still good friends but don’t see her very often. Summer 1962, must have been my
birthday, I was the only one to get a brand new Bicycle, of the photo I
remember my cardigan that I was wearing riding my bike, this was the best one
that Mum had ever made, it was a lovely cabled cardigan in a gorgeous lime
green colour, really the best Mum had ever knitted and boy had she knitted
some. Mum taught me how to knit and not
meaning to brag I can knit a mean cable cardigan myself, but not as fast as
Mum. I recently finished a lovely white
cable jacket, which I intended for Kayleigh but as it took me two years to
finishing it, it became Chloe’s, if it had taken longer it wouldn’t have
mattered it would have been for Elle. I left
school in 1963 and started work at the offices of Harry Hague in
Burscough. I left there
in 1965 and started work at an Accountants office Gasking, Lace and Co. in
Ormskirk. I worked
there on and off until 1999, with a break to have the kids and returned on a
part-time basis. In 1999 I
felt like a change, it had taken me thirty odd years to decide and I still do
the same sort of work with a different Accountant company, George Wright
& Co. I married
when I was twenty in 1968 to Llewellyn Johnson (known to us as Llyn) and had
two children, David & Mandy. The children
grew up, as they do, no differently than any other children. All was well
until in 1991 (Easter weekend) David had a serious motorbike accident,
thankfully he recovered, with only the loss of a leg. He met and married
Debbie in 1994 and has two children, Nathan and Elle Antonia. Mandy met
Steve Leonard and married in 2000 they also have two children, Kayleigh and
Chloe making me a happy grandmother of 4 lovely children. Sadly in
1992 Llyn died and never saw his grandchildren, but they know all about him
and talk about him a lot. I now have a
long relationship with Phil and live in Skelmersdale together. |
