Mum's Memories: The Kids

1970 - 1973

Created by Suzanne 15 years ago
After all this had happened, I went to work for Tom Snow at Dunham Bush whilst Elaine was on holiday following her marriage. Elaine and I remained friends for many years. I progressed from there to work for John Galley who was the Marketing Manager. Eventually, John went to work for John Boulton who used to come into Dunham Bush quite frequently but it didn’t work out and he moved back to Drayton with his family. Simon was the oldest and his sister a few year’s younger. I worked for John Galley for four years but he left, and in the meantime I became pregnant with Jeremy. I worked until nearly June and then left. In the meantime I again got ‘flu just before Christmas and was terrified of taking anything because I was pregnant. We told my parents and Mike’s at Christmas and they were delighted. We spent Christmas Day with Mike’s parents and went over to Eastbourne for Boxing Day. We then came home. Eventually Jeremy was born on the 27th July 1970 and Mike’s parents came down to see us at the Nursing Home. Mike was there went Jeremy was born and it was an amazing feeling although I struggled somewhat and found myself hanging on the bed crying with pain. Mike remained with me though the day before when my waters broke and throughout the next day also. Jeremy was a lovely child who would go to anybody. When he was four weeks old we took him to Brighton and after his ‘howling success’ at Northlands, we arranged to take him with us. Again, he would go to anyone. He was christened at six weeks by Rev. Norman Smith. I became pregnant again but it felt all wrong and I then had a miscarriage over the Bank Holiday week-and had to go into the Q.A. for a scrape. I then became pregnant with Suzanne which felt OK. She was a little girl in a hurry. Mike took me into Northlands again and the midwife said it would be several hours before she was born. In fact it was only two hours so Mike wasn’t there when she was born. I had gone to see the Dr. in the morning and he said it would be several days before she was born but always in a hurry she came out very quickly. She would go to Mike and me but wouldn’t go to her Grandpa Case at all and she used to scream when I left her outside the shops – Colman’s stores at the top of Brookside Road and where ATS is now used to be a Vegetable shop and she used to scream ‘blue murder’ and people would stop and try to calm her down but only succeeded in making her yell louder. She was christened at 8 months on Sunday 8th April 1973 by Rev. W. S. Herrington, Curate. At the time, my parents had sold the shop in Eastbourne and were looking for somewhere else. They were living with us at the time. Eventually they bought a sweets and tobacco shop in Hassocks. Suzanne would go to my parents but not to Grandpa Case.