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From a large family of 6 children came Harold Taylor, being the youngest and sometimes referred to as 'Baby Taylor', having the same Christian name as his father. They all lived at one time at no. 10 Alexandra Road, Chichester until the older ones started moving out and getting married.
Mr brother Bill carried on in the war factory till after the Second World War then went back to the building industry. I am not sure whom he worked for initially, but he was engaged in repair and renovation of bombed properties in London for some time. This took him to Croydon every day, whence they were conveyed by lorry. When this was over he worked for Neal's again on various project around the district, which included building rural council houses.
During the war, whilst at the war factory, he had been conscripted to serve in the Home Guard.
I recall that when I came home on my last leave from the Merchant Navy I had brought home bananas, which were by then a rare commodity. Bill's children, David and Diana, who were about 6 and 8 years old at the time, were very reluctant to eat this fruit, not having seen it before.
Bill finally moved to Bournemouth where he continued in the building industry, and jointly bought the house with our half sister, Flo, where she had originally lodged with Eva Parnell, who had recently died.
Eva had worked at the same school as Flo. She was a pleasant woman who had relatives in this neck of the woods. She also had a car and they would both arrive to stay the weekend, she to visit her relative, Stedman, who had a clock repair establishment in Midhurst. Many years later I discovered that around the turn of the century her father had been headmaster at the Petworth School.
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