Born 11/05/1916 at 85 Walters Rd Catford London
Died 17/05/1994 at Basildon Essex and Burried at Pitsea, Basildon Essex
Father: Henry Waugh
Mother: Lily May White
Married Annie Emily More 1939 at Romford Registery Office
Children.
'Living' 2 Children.
'Living'
'Living' 'Living'
'Living' 1 child.
Notes: My Fathers mother committed suicide in 1921 when he wa s 5 years old (The original letter is on file) he father wa s left to bring him and his 2 sisters up. They moved fro m St Pancas where his father was a bill poster to Langhorn e Road Dagenham, my fathers first job was a paper boy, an d that he how he met my mother, My mothers parents were aga inst the marriage as they believe that my father had no pro spects, but finally relented and they were married. They st arted married life in Becontree Avenue, they lived at 174 B econtree Avenue a 1 bed room flat Some time after this his father moved back to Catford Londo n around 1923, possibly because his wifes mother Mary Ann W hite lived in Farmstead Road Catford, his daughter Ivy move d back with him. My Aunt Lillian tells me that she used to work in Dagenha m at Briggs Body Works, coming home for lunch one day, ther e was a convoy of Army vehicles travelling down the Heathw ay, hanging from the back of one of these vehicles was my f ather, he was going to France after the invasion. He served in the REME during the War, and family accounts s ay that he had an affair with a Belgian girl who gave birt h to a daughter, wether my father ever saw his daughter i s not know. It was a constant source of friction between hi m and my mother, who frequently brought the subject up His father died in 1948, his sister Ivy was living with hi s father at the time and in 1950 he committed suicide by pl ace her head in the gas oven. When we lived at 19, Osborne square he worked at Telephon e Cable Limited at Dagenham Dock where he was machine opera tor, he work from 6am to 2pm, he left at around 5.30am to g et a bus the 174 or 175 one when to the Chequers lane and h e would walk down Chequers lane to the factory the other we nt down Chequers lane as far as Samuel William a shipping c ompany. Telephone Cables had good childrens parties at Ch ristmas held on a Saturday afternoon in the canteen, wher e we all received very good presents. Also during this tim e he sold Shrimps and Winkles around the streets on a Sunda y. He had an old Austin car which he would take to Billings gate Fish Market to purchase Shrimps (brown and pink) cockl es, Winkles, he used to leave around 3am in the morning, h a ving woken me wrapped me in a blanket and placed me on th e back seat of the car where I slept till we reached Billin gsgate. The shrimps, Winkles, Cockles were packed in mesh sacking , these were put in the back of the car and we returned t o Dagenham. He had a costermonger barrow legs at each end t o stop it tipping over and wheels in the middle, a white sh eet was pinned over the top and down the sides, the shrimps , winkles, cockles were place in enamel wash basins, each w ith a pint and half pint glass mug, brown paper bags pinne d to the sides and off we went, the cry was Shrimp and Winkle, we had our regular customers, shrim ps, winkles and cockles were a traditional sunday tea, toge ther with bead and butter, bent safety pins to put the wink les from their shells. We went via Eastfield road up to Fiv e Elms, there we would stop at a friend of my fathers Bil l Tuck, who lived with his mother, they would have a glas s of beer and mother Tuck would ply me with cake and lemona de. After leaving there we would continue down the Heathwa y to arrive at the Church Elms public house where my fathe r would leave me outside with the barrow to sell what I cou ld whilst he went in side for a drink. We took what we di d not sell home for tea, if we have any left over we burie d them at the bottom of the garden. Part of his job at Telephone Cables involved using small co ils of copper wire for the cables, my father used to steal these for want of a better word, bu rn the paper covering off of them and sell them to a scra p metal merchant in the Old Village at Dagenham, He was cau ght and was extremely lucky not to have been dismissed. a t this time we had moved from Osborne Square to 408 The Hea thway a woodern house, you were give a free hose pipe in ca se it caught alight. We then moved again some 400 yards u p the road to 19 Wayside Gardens. He continue to work at Telephone Cables until he retired. Some time before he retired we all moved from Dagenham to L aindon part of Basildon then quite a pleasant town, not th e sprawling mass of concrete that it is today. A vast numbe r of the houses were situated in pedestrian areas, so you h ad to park you car and walk, unfortunately until you were a ccustomed to the area it all look alike as the houses wer e of the same basic design, I recall an incident my firs t day ay work in London from Basildon, having returned to L aindon station from London I would to where we lived an are a called Spurriers, however I could not get my bearings i n the dark, I saw a man walking towards me and thought tha t I would ask him for some directions, only to find that i t was my father and he was losted as well.The marriage betw een my mother and father never very happy broke down, the y had frequent rows carpets would be taken up as one had bo ught it and the other one could not walk on it and as tim e when by they grew further apart and divorced. My father moved into a flat the otherside of Basildon, wher e he died in his sleep on the 17th May 1994.