Mike Packwood

We're going through all of our parents pictures and documents. They're being posted 'as they come out of the box'. So for the time being are in no particular order. Mums birth certificate 1937 Below: Mums school report 1953 Heaton High School. Newcastle  Below: Mums School report 1954   Above: Mums nurses training end of year presentation program, dated Thursday 6th December 1956 and held at Newcastle General Hospital. By the time of the nurses qualification event in December 1959 mum was married and her surname had changed to Keen. Below: Family Planning Association training certificates from 1974/5 while mum was working at the St Giles St surgery in Northampton  Below: Mums nurses 'practical instruction' logbook from 1956. Below: Qualifying as a District Nurse, July 1964....which came with a free uniform. Below: Becoming a Health Visitor in Northampton  May 1970. 23 hours a week with a salary of £1599 pa. Below: Qualifying to teach Health Visitors   Novem...

We're sorting through all of mum and dads boxes and boxes of photographs....and posting some here for relatives and friends to enjoy. They're being posted 'as they come out of the box' so for the time being won't be in any particular order. Above and below: Mum in March 1951, age 14, pictured with her classmates at Heaton High School. Below: Three pictures of Heather Packwood. at Weston Favell County Primary school circa 1969. Below: Dad. Gordon Arthur Packwood. Earles Barton, circa 1930 (age 5) Below: Mike around 1965, age 3. Probably the beach at Hunstanton, Norfolk. Below: Dads parents on their wedding day. Not sure of date but probably early 20's. Below: Me, Heather, Dad. Probably Wicksteed Park around 1967. Below: Lily Violet Hall. Mums mum. 1903-1976. Taken in 1923. Below: Dad on RAF service. Bombay, India, 1945 Below: Dad and his elder brother Douglas, 1945. Below: Dad on a troop ship returning from India 1946. Below: Dad 1953, age 28 Below: Dad in 1936 a...

Here we are on a 4 day break to Vienna and very nice it was too. In a nutshell, apart from sausages, it featured: Flak towers, dinner at the top of the revolving TV tower (not a patch on Berlins tower), a whirl on the British built and worlds oldest big wheel featured in the 1949 classic 'The Third Man' and a visit to the utterly amazing Lippizzan horses- who you're not allowed to take pictures of unfortunately but if you get the chance are not to be missed.