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\nwww.liverpool.gov.uk/libraries01512333000  \n.267  \nW  \n092  \n毛  \nFirst Published 2014 by Countyvise Ltd14 Appin Road,Birkenhead,CH419HH  \nCopyright ◎2014 Ted Clement-Evans  \nThe right of Ted Clement-Evans to be identified as the author of this work hasbeen asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright,Design and PatentsAct 1988.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nISBN 9781910352014  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored ina retrieval system,or transmitted,in any other form,or by any other means,electronic,chemical,mechanic,photograph copying,recording or otherwise,without the prior permission of the publisher.  \nPrinted in the UK by Birkenhead Press.  \nCONTENTS  \nA TALE OF TWO TEDS-PART I  \nEdward(Ted)JonesIn 1903 to change his name toEdward Richards Jones and later known as ER'  \nAcknowledgements  \n5  \nForeword,a Letter to an HistorianIntroductionCast of Characters  \n7  \n15  \n21  \nEarly Days 1891 to 1893(Born 1877)1894:The Daily Diary  \n22  \n25  \n1895:The Diary Continues January 1st until WednesdayJuly 17th1895-1903:Significant Diary DatesA Life in Summary:1877-1956  \n87  \n107  \n111  \nThe Houses E.R.Jones and his Father Hugh Jones built 1903 to 1915APPENDIXA-The “All-Electric House”APPENDIXB-Alwyn Street Title Deed  \n121  \n127  \n131  \nA TALE OF TWO TEDS-PART I  \nEdward (Ted)C EvansLater to change his name toEdward Clement-Evans and always known as 'Ted'  \nSix Generations of Liverpool Welsh135Early Days143The Leaving of Liverpool on the Outbreak of War:1939-1944146The Return to Liverpool and School:1944-1954149The Leaving of Liverpool for National Service:1954-1958156Life as a Quantity Surveyor and Marriage:1958-1962161Ambitions Curtailed:1962-1964169Return to Todd and Ledson:1964-1970174Running a Business:1970 to 1990177Business Failures:1980201Life upon Retirement-at home in 'The Rookings':1990-2002205The Passing of Friends and a Marriage of Forty Years Comes to an End219  \n# ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\n\npecial thanks and gratitude go to my daughter-in-law SueClement-Evans.She has an already busy life managing herhome and her wonderful family,my son Rhys and my twogranddaughters,Laura and Sarah,and she is also general manager ofthe Racquet Club wedding and function rooms in Liverpool.Whenmy grandfather's diary,the basis of this book,was first found it wasmerely a copy of his original pencil-written exercise book of onehundred and fifty pages.Blithely and swiftly she deciphered it andtyped the document which forms the first half of this story.WithoutSue,this enterprise would not have happened.  \nThanks also to my son-in-law Michael McCallion,and thesupport of his family,my daughter Gaynor and my two grandsons,Gareth and Dylan,for the invaluable technical support in adding themany insertions of pictures and links.  \nMy thanks go to Reverend Dr.D.Ben Rees,historian andminister of the Welsh Bethel Chapel.It was he,on his visit to Cilcainin October2013,who discovered that my brotherJohn possessed thishistorically very important document and which he then broughtback to Liverpool.  \nThanks also to Jan Sear,artist and author,one of the foundermembers of the Lark Lane Scribblers,for her enthusiastic supportand meticulous proof reading and comment  \nThank you Dr.Pat Williams,also author,for your own eruditecomments and proof reading.  \nRingo Starr's local,the Empress public houseWhere the story starts  \n# FOREWORD,A LETTER TO ANHISTORIAN\n\n)  \nThis is a letter to the Reverend D.Ben Rees(Ben)writtenat the time he was to be interviewed by BBC Radio Waleson ‘The Welsh Builder on Merseyside'and he had invitedthe author to join him.Ben is an historian,particularly of LiverpoolWelsh History.This letter of 2009 was written before we had sight ofthe long diary written by E.R.Jones(ER)in 2013 but we both hadearlier seen a shorter diary,also written by 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