During the summer of nineteen fifty we all went to stay with Grandma Pearson at Riverside, Penwortham, as by that time Grandad had sold the business at Prospect House and moved to Penwortham and so we came to nineteen fifty one and it was that spring and early summer when we learnt we were once again going to be parents to another baby. This, of course, was a very hectic time. During nineteen forty nine I had gone over to Leyland, being stationed there regularly, from my headquarters at Chorley. I was more or less obtaining parts which we didn’t have in stock at Chorley, so my time was spent in going from store to store at Farington and sending the parts back to Chorley by van. The van driver’s name was Hugh Wilson, who came from Bretherton. I used to leave home around seven a.m. and arrive home at around seven thirty p.m., they being long days. As the year progressed we were once again looking forward to a further addition to our family. We had to purchase a new Silver Cross pram, as the other one was getting a bit shabby and we wanted one a little smaller. We also had bought a new buggy in which we could take out Paul and John when he was big enough to sit in. December approached and on the second of the month at our own home, as mum said she would have the baby at home, our new arrival came on Advent Sunday morning at around 11.20 a.m. We had decided, if it was a girl, we would call her Elaine, and so it turned out to be. We had a hectic morning, Alice starting in labour. We had already had a false alarm the previous Wednesday, but this time it was for real. A lady in Chorley Old Road, Mrs. Shannon, had said we could use her telephone if we needed to, so I went up and rang District Nurse McNamarra, who came pretty quickly and I think in the meantime she must have informed Dr. Hugh Milligan. However, after her first visit and she had had a look at mum she informed me, “I am just going up to mass at Clayton Green, if you need me come up on your cycle to tell me.” So I was left with Alice in labour; Paul, I think was at Mrs. Mercers, at No. 39 and John was in his cot. The nurse eventually came back and ordered me to get loads of hot water. I had filled the container, which we had in the washhouse and that was bubbling away. In the event very little was needed as we had hot water in the bathroom. Dr. Milligan arrived and casually mentioned “I will just go up to Brindle’” but Nurse Mac said “You will stay here.” Which he did and so our daughter Elaine was born at No. 32 Hillside Crescent – “the child that is born on the Sabbath day …”. Grandma Pearson came from Penwortham and stayed for a few days. So, in under four years we had a family of three, after waiting for six years before we had any. The vicar, Rev. Arthur Read, came to visit Alice in the afternoon and said it was the youngest baby he had ever seen. Elaine would be just approx. three hours old.