WßD Introduction to 2025 Edition

Windsor Street Days

Part IV

Chapter Seven

Introduction to the 2025 Edition

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Windsor Street Days is a family story seen from the perspective of the writer. Every family comprises many members, of different ages, and different generations, and each will have a personal view. When five people witness an event, there will be five distinct variations of that event. Sometimes, the recollections will clash.

History distils. The passage of time sees the departure of eyewitnesses, and their accounts are no longer primary but secondary. We now proceed upon the path that leads us to conjecture, patching up with what we think we remember, and in time, we move into that realm we call might have been, probably becomes possibly, and all conjoin a hundred years from now into myth.

This new 2025 edition restructures the whole story into six parts. Each part stands alone with its own opening and closing chapters.

As the Six Parts are worked through, so too, will the url addresses be updated. If a link has been saved from the past and now returns a blank page, simply move to the Windsor Street Days Category.

If the chapter cannot be located, that is because I have removed it to Drafts and am rewriting the chapter.

 

 

Windsor Street Days

 

Part One

 

1          Introduction to First Edition

 

2          March Winds

 

3          Number Twenty

 

4          Faith

 

5          Across Town to Elmfield

 

6          From Eyford Park to Cotswold Grange

 

7          A Sergeant-Pilot and His Mum ~ A Family at War

 

8          The Dreaded Priority Telegram

 

9          Winding the Clock Back to 1928-1929

 

 

Part Two

 

1          A Short Biography by Desmond Budd Webb (1927-2012)

 

2          Wartime Reserved Occupation

 

3          Homeward Bound

 

4          Post-War

 

5          “Class of 96”

 

6          A Growing Family and Promotion

 

7          The Auction

 

8          Changing Gear

 

9          Interlude ~ signing off Dad’s biography and alerting the reader

            that my perspective resumes in Part Three

 

 

Part Three

 

1          Changing the Archive Gear

 

2          A Century of Remembrance I

 

3          A Century of Remembrance II

 

4          Foundation Stones in Infancy

 

5          Elmfield Road Days

 

6          History Touches the Rudder

 

7          All in a Name

 

8          Vine Cottage

 

9          Christening

 

 

Part Four

 

1          Introduction to 2025 Edition

2 Drawbridge

 

3          Upon Departing Pittville Mount Park for One Last Time

 

4          All Change ~ Full Circle

 

5          A Quiet Corner of Southern England from a Northern Perspective

 

6          The Hour

 

7          Pause

 

8          Places         

 

 

 

Part Five

 

1          Harry Marshall Senior 2/5th BN Gloucestershire Regiment I WWI

 

2          Harry Marshall Senior 2/5th BN Gloucestershire Regiment II WWI

 

3          Harry Marshall Senior – Capture 22 March 1918

 

4          Harry Marshall Senior – End 18 October 1918

 

5          Harry Marshall Junior ~ RAF Service WWII

 

6          Harry Marshall Pathfinder RAF 17 January 1945 Operation Zeitz

 

7          Kenneth Webb ~ RAF Service WWII

 

8          Kenneth Webb Main Force 17 April 1943 Operation Frothblower

 

9          Life is Good

 

 

 

Part Six

 

1          Outgrown

 

2          Meandering

 

3          Drawbridge

 

4          A Pond in 2016

 

5         

3 February 2025
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© 2025 Kenneth Thomas Webb

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Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.