Childhood correspondence between George Horrobin (1925-1998) and Violet Baker

From: Letter in the Attic

Collection consists of the correspondence between GH and VB when they were approximately 10 years old in 1936.

Creator

Horrobin, George, 1925-1998; Baker, Violet, born 1925

Date of creation

1936

Extent

5 letters; 1 photograph

Access

Open

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Reference number

LIA/44

Background information

GH was born on 5 November 1925 at 47 Brunswick Square, Brighton and died in Brighton on 4 August 1998. His family lived at 13 Upper Market Street in Hove, the Clayton family (his mother's family) owned numbers 12 and 13 for many years. He attended St Margaret's School, Queensbury Mews, Brighton and Senior Boys School, Connaught Road, Hove, leaving in 1939. Other than overseas service during and after the Second World War as a Leading Aircraftman in the RAF working as a radio operator GH lived his whole life in Brighton and Hove. He was employed as an apprentice printer before the war for the Brighton and Hove Herald at 2-3 Pavillion Buildings, Brighton and returned to the Herald after being demobbed in December 1947. He retrained as a teacher in 1953. GH married Irene Allan Dawes on 4 Setember 1948 in Glasgow, having met her whilst stationed in Cornwall in 1944. GH and IAD had 3 children, Patricia, Jane and Allan. Papers from GH's time in the RAF can be viewed by refering to LIA/1. VB was born in 1925 in Devonshire Street, Hove and moved at the age of 7 to Temple Street. She is now Vera Blunden and presently (2008) lives in Swindon. She has no recollection of the letters or the other girl called Vera who is mentioned in the letters.

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