Richard Harold Clegg

Dad or Grandad would have been 100 years old today and I can't let the occasion go by without celebrating with you all. So I've dug out the old albums and narrowed down so many photos to these few.

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I've no date for the first photo but he looks quite young in this selection. Always a football fan it's great to include this one, playing for a Prestwich team in 1937. Dad is third player from the left on the back row.

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As a young man he was interested in amateur dramatics and the third photo shows him back stage in 1938. Another posed shot comes next, again without a date.

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Mum & Dad were married in 1945, Mum's dress paid for with coupons. They later found out that there had been a German spy at the wedding! In the photo there's Uncle Frank with Grandma Clegg and Grandma & Grandpop Williams.

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Ann arrived almost nine months later to the day, and the rest of us within six years! So, left to right you have Mum, Kathryn (Kate), Ann, Pete, Dad and me.

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Dad became station officer for Congleton Fire Brigade and we moved there in the early 60s. We'd moved houses (and schools) several times by then as Dad was promoted, so it was good to be settled.

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As in most families Christmas is a special time and Dad was more than happy to play the fool for the grandchildren. Like me Dad was a real sun-worshipper and I bet he loved this day (especially with one of his two favourite daughters-in-law)!

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Next we have the happy couple celebrating their Golden Wedding in 1995.

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Dad and Mum have now sadly left us. I wonder what they would have made of this celebration for Philippe's 18th in 2006?