Talk:Fred Bevan/@comment-5.71.127.193-20161101122455

At last -- I've managed to find the history of my grandfather's footballing career, as a boy I remember most of his photographs and football scrapbooks were lost in the bombing and destruction of the family house in 58 Brunswick Rd., Poplar, in 1944. Having tried many times at looking at various histories of teams I knew he had played for and my late mother telling me stories of the family friendship with Billy Meredith when playing for Man. City. Like many families of that time the Bevan family was very large totalling 14 children, three of whom died very young, that left five sisters and six brothers, all of which have died, the last being in 2006.

As a boy, my brother Colin and I along with my mother and father lived in 58 Brunswick Rd., until I was eight and my brother four at the start of WW2 in Sept.1939 when we were evacuated for a period of a year, the top of the house where our accommodation was received damage to the roof and rooms in 1941, so we had to leave the family to stay in Canning Town where we stayed until the end of the war, but remained very close to all the brothers and sisters throughout the ups and downs of those years, I have very fond memories of my uncles and aunts and vague memories of my grandparents.

I hope this information is of some interest to someone, somewhere -- Michael Bacon, Aged 85.

