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Irene M.M. Sutcliffe, Mark Andrew Sutcliffe, in the front garden of our first house, now part of Violet鈥檚 Cottage, just above the Ploughboy Pub, Buxton Old Road, Disley circa 1951 contact via mark@sutcliffe81.freeserve.co.uk
The following account is best to put into context by reading my story listed under: Irene M M Sutcliffe:
Here I am with Mark, now walking and smiling happily together. All dressed up in our Sunday Best, outside the front door of our little house. Bill would be taking this photo. Angela was born the following year in January 1952.
When the armed forces were de-mobbed, there was a big increase in the population鈥he baby boom. Mark, and later Angela, were among that group of young people who grew up with a higher standard of living, the National Health Service (that Mark worked for all his life) and relatively peaceful times. This was our legacy to them.
Mark feels his generation has let ours down. He is very unhappy about the loss of the rights and standards of fair play he was taught to uphold.
We had to endure frugal "Make Do And Mend" living and see our friends die. We travelled and experienced new cultures and countries which opened our eyes to the world. Life was often a great adventure for us, after all we were all 19,20,21, and in it all together. Class boundaries faded and now British society no longer unquestioningly accepts the dictat of government which is a very healthy thing. I have been a committed pacifist since the war. I think that some change is inevitable however and we have to try to make the best of it if possible. SOLDIER ON

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