about dad

Created by Debbie 12 years ago
Brian was born in wallasey on 30/09/1948. He was brought up and loved by his paternal grandparents and became very close to his extended family especially uncle tom and uncle frank, to name but a few. He had a close relationship with his dad george who sadly passed away in march 2002 of bowel cancer. Brian had 3 sisters, jeanette, Gill & gail, & 1 brother raymond. Brians first job was at Eddy Guest the butchers as a delivery boy. He then worked in the gandy belt in 1967 were he met Christine, they started courting in May 1967 & married on 2nd Dec 1967. They had 3 daughters, Mandy, Debbie, Nicola, & had a long awaited son who tradgically died aged 7weeks old of cot death. we did lots of camping trips every summer with our daughters to chedder gorge, were we all loved and went back year after year. we always had a house full of our daughters friends every weekend, always somebody sleeping over. Brian was also blessed with 9 grandchildren, Andrew,Jamie,Hayley,Rebecca,Mathew,Johnathon,Chelsea,Bethany & Ryan ( who they all say are complete angels). Brian also worked on the buses as a bus conductor, & then qualified to become a bus driver on double decker buses. He played for 2 darts teams whilst working on the buses, 1 for the buses, 1 for manweb. Then he worked at Girlings in Bromborough, Then he worked at meterfit as an istilations manager fitting water meters were he retired due to ill health with his artheritis. Brian had a best friend Dave, who he knew since he was aged 4 and started school together. Brian had a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor, he liked to wind people up were ever he went, especially the staff in the local shops of ellesmere port, he had a great banter with them, he & Dave both had the same sense of humor, think thats why they stayed friends for so many years. Brian was a very keen gardener, he loved to grow allsorts of flowers and vegetables in his garden and greenhouse. He was a keen DIYer who did all his own decorating and repairs. Brian had a love for budgies and was a member of ellesmere port bird club. He was also a member of the ellesmere port philatelic society as he was a keen stamp collector. Brian bred Alsations for many years and was a member of the kennel club with his own name of prenshire, but with his artheritis he could no longer bread Alsations so started to breed Cavalier King Charles for a few years, as he loved dogs. Brian was a big fan of the beatles, i think he had every album ever made. He also collected various types of whiskey, large and minuture bottles but never drank any of them.