Gordon my dad, had met Connie my Mum when he was a trainee manager for Stevens and Steeds provision merchants. Manager of the Maury Road Stoke Newington branch was Frederick John Parker who lived over the shop with his wife Fannie Elizabeth and their four daughters, Violet, Constance, Evelyn and Joan.
In 1925 when Connie was eighteen she and friends had a holiday at Herne Bay.
Gordon followed on his motor bike. As you see, they were good buddies by then. Gordon had various bikes including a Norton, an AJS and a BSA. I think.
At Herne bay Connie is fourth from the left in the group.
Also below, Frederick John Parker. is on the left with brother-in-law Alf Saunders taken about 1920. F.J. died, stomach cancer, about 1925. He had spent time in the Great War at the Royal Naval Air Service base at Otranto Italy.
