DAPHNE AND HORRY

Daphne Bailey’s garden backed in my mum and dad’s garden. If Daphne wanted to see Horry, she would step over the wall. Her dad made billiard tables ‘cos that’s what killed him in the end – he got silicosis off the slate of the billiard tables. In those days you didn’t get masks to wear you just took your chance.

During the war Daphne was evacuated to Bideford in Devon – she always said it was the best year of her young life. She started courting my brother Horry when he was in RAF when he was 18. Her two sisters married Yanks and went over to live in America.

Daisy’s brother Horry was born Horace Alfred Chapman in 1927 in Finsbury, London. He married Daphne Marguerite Bailey in 1950 in Holy Trinity Church, Dalston. He died in 2005 in Bexley, Kent leaving Daphne, four children and five grandchildren.

Daphne and Horry on their wedding day in 1950

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