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Partridge’s & Spencer’s Redditch Heritage
Samuel and Edith (nee Oakley) Spencer in 1897
He was easy going, enjoying mostly a game
of bowls or darts at the Elcocks Brook pub
whilst courting a fellow worker, Margaret
Davis, for many years before marrying her
in his 50's. He drove a red Austin Seven
sports car in which Simon often travelled to
watch local football matches where he
played in goal for the Terry's team.
In this car Sid and Margaret would travel
the two hundred miles to Yarmouth during
the annual holiday week to stay with friends
in their cottage.
The house where Ted, Phyl & Simon lived
for thirteen years was on the steeply rising
Plymouth Road about a mile from the centre
of Redditch. It is now now buried under a
modern dual carriageway.
When war was declared in 1939 Simon's
father joined with a neighbour, Norman
Patchett in building an air raid shelter on
the golf course behind the Patchett's house.
(Norman was a club official). It was about
fifty yards from any habitation. This shelter
or bunker was built of wooden timbers and
reinforced with corrugated iron and covered
with earth and heather as camouflage. It
Worcester Road, Redditch in the late 1960’s
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