(The following has been written by their son.)

"My father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all newsagents in Oxford.

My father, Arthur Clifford, worked for his father, John Arthur, in the family retail and wholesale newspaper business. There was a shop in Oxford, and another one in Headington, called English and Sons. They had a big shop on the corner in Cowley Road. They had a yard in the back where they possibly put the vans. I can vaguely remember when the Headington shop was opened.

In the early years of their marriage, they lived at 67 St. Mary's Road not far from the Cowley Road. This was where I was born. I went to a church school on the main road, London Road, Headington. The playing field for the school was at the bottom of our garden.

Arthur and Evelyn and their three children moved to New Milton, Hampshire, in 1939, before war was declared. Arthur and Evelyn had a little shop in New Milton, on Old Milton Road. They more or less had to sell the shop so that Arthur could do war work. He worked for a firm in Southampton, then transferred to Christchurch where aeroplanes were repaired. When they sold the shop, they had to move out of their flat which was above it, and they moved to The Chantry, Old Milton, which had a shop front as well. (They must have lived here until the early sixties, because Colin remembers visiting there.)

After WWII, my parents were still living at New Milton. Arthur was working for a big newspaper wholesaler in Bournemouth. He went up to London every night on the train with four or five others and packed all the papers up for the different newsagents so when they got back to Bournemouth they could be distributed straight away to all the newsagents. I came back on that train in the middle of night when I was demobbed in about 1948. While doing this newspaper train job, Arthur got ulcers and had to give this job up.

At some stage, Arthur left his wife Evelyn, and moved back to Oxford, where he married Mary. He died in Jericho, Oxford on 5 June 1975, at 18 Juxon Street, and is buried in Wolvercote cemetery.