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A PERSONAL NOTE FROM GEOFFREY ALBERT NORTH

During the 1940's my mother, Olive, went out to work part time to
supplement the family income and I was left with Susan Mabel North who
was my Great Aunt. We lived in Norbury a northern suburb of Croydon. Bob, my
brother, was (and still is!) nine years older than me and he went to
Whitgift School in south Croydon. Coincidentally Bob, Roger and
Rodney were all at Whitgift at the same time though in different
years. Perhaps because Bob and I have come through the maternal line
and our surname was Chitty it was not obvious that Roger and Rodney
North were related to us.


For a while during the Second World War my brother Bob and I were
evacuated to Lewes to live with our great uncle Sidney Vincent North
and two of his two daughters, Betty and Peggy. He lived at Ousedale
House which is on the A275 opposite the Chalk Pit pub. What a place to
be evacuated to - just near where the Germans may probably have
landed.

 I went to Selhurst Grammar School in Croydon and then to the London School of Economics. I have had a mixed career spanning industry and local government. I set up my own company in business skills training and marketing services in 1990 and I am just winding down. I have two sons, David specialising in financial services and Adrian who is a whiz kid at graphic design. Sadly my wife, Doreen, (see photo on Vanda North page) died in 2007 but I now have a new wife, Anne, who is also a keen
family historian."

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I still remember Bob who was in his teens then (and I three or four) giving Mum and I rides around the perimeter of Sidney's garden on one side of which there was a scary drop to the valley below. Sidney seemed very fond of Bob and he promised him a car when he reached twenty one. Bob was 21 in 1952 but Sidney died in 1951! Now every time I phone him about our family tree he asks whether I have found his car!

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