A Family History of the Illustrious, Notorious and Eccentric Lloyds of Birmingham, Brigstock and Pipewell Hall - Flipbook - Page 154
CHRISTOPHER LLOYD Uncle Kit
1918 - 1940
aka "Sir Christopher Winkle Bart"
much less of Uncle Kit than of Uncle Tim, since he was several years older, I nonetheless
ed him as a kindred spirit.
ember Pierre taking me to Oundle, as a very small boy, accompanied by Uncle Kit. They were
g the older Lloyd brothers on their day out when we were all leaning over a bridge over the River
ooking at the fish in the pool below. Uncle Kit cried out, "Look at that huge fish", opening his
h wide, and dropping into the pool the new plate which was hurting his mouth, made for him at
expense, by the Kettering private dentist Mr Wood.
ost vivid memory of him was the poaching expedition to Rushton Hall, five miles away to poach
out that the owner, Robert St George, had just put in to stock up the Rushton Hall lake. Uncle Kit
e mastermind of the expedition, which gave me a taste for poaching for the whole of my sporting
, including being caught on several occasions. The expedition got off to a good start with the trout
ed to our dung heap worms, when we suddenly saw car headlights entering the front gate, Robert
orge having decided to return two days earlier than Uncle Kit9s tip-off had told him. We turned off
torches until the cars had unloaded and entered the hall, and then beat a hasty retreat, narrowly
ng being caught red-handed!
Kit had a strong mechanical bent and was often to be seen, covered with grease and grime,
ring from underneath one of the bangers, which abounded at Pipewell, trying to coax life into it.
ently, at one stage just before the war he was driving some of the heavy earthmoving equipment
the Pipewell Ploughing Company hired out. On one occasion when there was a family wedding or
l without enough black clothes at Pipewell to kit out all the uncles, Uncle Kit was despatched to
Bros in London with me in tow, to hire a suit. I remember his hands being as dirty as usual, so that
he tried tying the tie with his filthy hands there were his greasy finger marks on it and the white
He rounded on the Moss Bros assistant who was serving him, saying, "You filthy fellow, look what
ands have done to this shirt. Replace it immediately for me to take away for this event!"
