William John & Florence Saunders

William John Saunders born 1897 was the son of Johnnie and Daisy Saunders. See John William Saunders & Elizabeth Daisy Dell

Florence 'Bertha' Smith born ? was the daughter of Owen Smith of Parslows Hillock

1939 Register (census) 'Chorlton', Main Road, Lacey Green. William Saunders 42 master builder

Ted Saunders born 1921

Millicent Saunders born 1923

Maurice 'Mosh' Saunders born 1923

C. 1920 – 26.   Idle Corner Tenant. William John Saunders, 23, Bertha Saunders, Edward ‘Ted’, born 1921, Millicent and Maurice ‘Mosh’, twins, born 1923.   Mosh knew Idle Corner as the ‘Black Horse Yard.’

The Reading Room. Conveyance to John William Saunders of Lacey Green, builder.

Schedule.   All that piece of land at Lacey Green, containing 5 poles, together with the bungalow, formerly The Reading Room. click 1886 The Reading Room.

More room needed

John's son, William John Saunders and his wife Flo. were living in a tiny cottage at Idle Corner.   They had 1 son, Ted, and were expecting twins and needing more room, so John bought the old Reading Room for them.   He extended it one end, making it 3 rooms with a narrow kitchen at the back.

Mosh spoke of the bungalow opening straight onto the track, which was the Main Road of Lacey Green, virtually unused by traffic, his feet in the road.

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Their son Maurice born in 1923, wrote about times that he and his twin sister Millicent spent with their grandfather Owen and the bodgers in Hampden Woods entitled "Children in a Bodgers' World".

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