From one club to another

 Hi!, just read your letter about your club in our  local rag. Being the President of The Merseysiders and Friends Australian Social Club Inc. I thought  that I would drop you a line.  My Dad who passed away in 1994 was one of the original  founders of our club. I was  asked to take over and am still President. We are just starting our sixteenth year, are a small club of 66 people but we are a great crowd. I am originally from Princes Park and have been  here in Adelaide, South Australia for 26 years now. I am a member of Expats  and  Friends Reunited and often read about people from Liverpool. What a wonderful place, there's no place like it. Good luck for the future and I shall look out for the  garston-woodcutters site when I'm browsing  the net. Best Wishes, Lin Passey'

Hello from down under

Just thought I'd let you know that your letter about your website was printed in our local paper in Adelaide  Australia and being an ex Liverpool girl I thought I would just say Hi! Have passed the details onto my cousin who lives in Darwin and my brother who lives in Brisbane. Jan 

 hi in 1938/39 my first job after school was at the radio shop delivering accumalators and batteries and taking them for charging, wonder if that shop is now still there. i lived  in mersey avenue next to the cricket ground at grassendale.i am also trying to get in touch with my ex sister in law who moved to garston in the early 50s. her name was vera farrington. and her son is reggie farrington. if reggie or his sister is still in the garston  area i would love to hear from him and he can tell me about his mother and if she is still alive. i am 82 and she would be in her mid to late 70s. memories i have of garston and area. i remember as if they were only yesterday.thank you very much. arthur farrington.

last time i was in garston area was 1967 before coming to south australia

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Arthur Clake's (brother in law) son on holiday in Queensland was talking to a man who said he was in the RAF with a Robert Dale Clake, his mother was called Kitty "from the Dingle" this man got birthday cards and Christmas cards off him.

 He said they were stationed in Germany at one time. Arthur's son did not think anything of this till he mentioned it to his father when he got home as Clake is not a common name people always think of Clark.  Arthur's parents were separated about 1931, and his father Cecil Coulstan Clake went out with a woman called Kitty (maiden name not known) and Arthur would dearly love to find out whether he has a half brother, because it was a bit of a coincidence hearing this information. Arthur was actually born in Rock Ferry, Fieldside Road. in 1929, then his parents moved to Kirkdale.

 His father was in digs in Wallasey, and lived in Everton Valley, died in 1954 aged 54.

I have tried looking up births, and Arthur has rung up a few Clake's  over in the UK but to no avail, if his father and Kitty weren't married she might have registered him in her name and then perhaps taken the name of Clake, possible perhaps?  He may have been born in the mid 1930 ties early forties?

If you could put a message on the boards etc, we would really appreciate it and thank you very much.

If you can help Ann then you can contact us here at expats@garston-woodcutters.co.uk and we will pass on your details