Note: Annie's husband, my grandfather, was actually called WILLIAM HENRY Spurge (again I got the name wrong). There was some confusion, but this was the name on his army papers. He was born in the same year, 1894. Annie went down his pockets in 1934 and found the love letters because 'a voice' directed her to do it! She was hot on this kind of thing. Pat overheard her telling a neighbour what she had found, adding that, 'He hasn't touched me since last June!' Pat thought this was a stange remark since husbands and wives touched each other all the time! Her mother noticed her at this point and told her to, 'GO INDOORS!' He finally left them on May day 1935. The woman he went off with was called Elsie Rogers, marital status unknown, and she doesn't know the daughter's name or whether she was born before or after 1935, but it would definitely have been in the mid-30s. The hotel they ran was called the Glenalmond, in Madeira Road Bournemouth No-one ever knew much about William Spurge's family. He was said to have been living in lodgings when he got married. He was a milkman, and Grandma thinks he may have cashed in some shares or dividends he had with United Dairies in order to acquire the hotel (or alternatively, perhaps he was just the manager and didn't own it�?) remember he also sold the house over the heads of his wife and children, so he may have got some capital from that. When they were made homeless by that, the piano (probably their most prized and valuable possession) was sent to be looked after by Joan King's mother. Joan King still rings them up every week and must be one of their oldest friends, Her late husband, Don, was the choir master at our church in Tottenham when we lived there, and I used to sing in the choir under him.
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