My maternal granfer was a dairy farmer, my paternal grandfather was unknown. My paternal grandmothers' husband was Granpop... looked like Fraser from 'Dad's Army' - long face, sunken eyes, crazy wild eyebrows! He was a builder/agricultural labourer for most of his life. I have no knowledge of him other than he served in the village Home Guard with my father - if he was Fraser, dad was Pike - youngest in the platoon, ears like the F A Cup, wore a scarf....

I've traced back 7 generations in my maternal granfers family - his father was originally a thatcher, the family trade that goes all the way back to the 1720s and beyond. My paternal side, it's mostly agricultural labourers, carters, sawyers and woodsmen.

My granfer, born in 1905, avoided active service in WWII as he had a proteced occupation, but he did billet several soldiers, was a member of the Royal Observer Corps and fed half the village with his rabbit snares. Granfer the Spiv... as he was in his younger days... quite the catch!

LTS