I will be discussing with my son what to do with Fathers watch.

He probably knows more about him than I do or did.

Why is that. We used to take him up the Mum’s during the school holidays and he would be there days, or weeks from age 5 to 16-18 often going to Sunderland matches etc.

He would see Dad as I never saw him. Dad working or going to various meetings and me at work then college. After work.

For the 10 years before I got married we were both gadding about doing our own thing. I rarely went to the football, cycling and running more my thing. I was a doer not a watcher.

After Dad retired in 1977 he would take my son all over the place and I would then hear things that I never knew.

Of course moving away from Tyneside in 1968 didn’t help.
Allan C.