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CHAPTER 5
UNFORTUNATE INCIDENTS

ALL TOGETHER BUT HAUNTED
The pub interlude finished in 1956 and we all descended on
the house at 129 London Road in Boston.
(The house was called “Park Royd” and had some connection
with Sir Fred Parks who I believe was one of the originators of
the Boston Deep Sea Fishing Company.)
Grandmother was a marvel at managing money and had
been adapting her “experiences out of necessity” with
entertaining “paying guests” or “lodgers”, an experience she had
first adopted in Harrogate.
The 129 house, a tall three storey semi detached property
with a haunted top storey, was consequently quite full with
Mother and Father, Jane and I joining Grandmother and her
lodgers. Friction began almost straight away.
Grandmother was always practical and could not stand
inefficiency or waste.
Mother had seemed to have spent all the family’s previous
wealth one way or another, yet Grandmother Munford had
learned to appreciate every penny she earned herself. I
vociferously supported Grandmother in this and was
consequently ‘blacked’. I was deemed to be too outspoken and
anyway 'I was too young, what did I know about anything'!

Consequently, my Saturday job was sweeping the three
storey staircase carpet with dustpan and brush, then dusting all.
Vacuum cleaners had not yet made an appearance!

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