A Family History of the Illustrious, Notorious and Eccentric Lloyds of Birmingham, Brigstock and Pipewell Hall - Flipbook - Page 148
RUTH IRENE LLOYD Auntie Roo
1914 - 1976
Ruthy was, as far as I am aware a Downs Syndrome child who was loved and cared for by the rest
family. Their relationship is best understood by reading her correspondence with Uncle Tim, just
e he was killed in action on the Italian Front on pages 154/155.
ved into her sixties, if not fifties, and I last remember her living with Granny Lloyd in the Red
e near Pipewell Wood by the church. I recollect that for many years she may have had a spinster
anion Dorothy Tupholme, whose brother was a master at Sunningdale Preparatory School, arch
ng rivals of Ludgrove, nearby where I was at Preparatory School.
last winter term at Ludgrove, I was playing in a first eleven away soccer match against Sunningdale,
ry day after a notice had been read out in each of the Ludgrove classrooms, saying, "Collins has been
from being a School Monitor, and caned for stealing sweets.= This enabled me to let my trousers down in the
ngdale Changing Room to show off the stripes where Alan Barber's strong wrists had marked my
This happened during sweet rationing, when all sweets sent to boys by parents had to be shared out
he other boys. At the end of lunch each day, a selection of sweets were laid out on plates on a
r table, near the door, and the boys to whom the sweets had been sent handed them round all the
boys seated at the tables. My mother had sent me a large parcel of sweets which she had specially
for me. On the day that these were chosen to be laid out on a plate for handing around after lunch,
ed in to the dining room just before lunch. Seeing a plateful of my mothers' sweets, I could not
grabbing a handful. Just, as I was about to cram them into my pocket, I felt the grasp of Mr Shaw,
eputy-Headmaster, gripping me by the hair, so that I was caught red-handed, and beaten by the
master Mr Barber later that day!
