A Family History of the Illustrious, Notorious and Eccentric Lloyds of Birmingham, Brigstock and Pipewell Hall - Flipbook - Page 158
TIMOTHY PETER LLOYD Uncle Tim
1922 - 1944
ne occasion when Tim was travelling to London with Granny Lloyd, he suddenly told her that he
bout to be sick. Granny seized the copy of The Times which the gentleman opposite was reading.
was sick into the newspaper and Granny gave it back to the startled man thanking him very much!
e Tim was only three years older than my sister Deborah, and six years older than me, so he was
like a brother to us than an uncle. He had great charisma and charm, and a natural ease of manner
company. Unlike his older brothers who went to the Northamptonshire public school, Oundle, he
o Repton and flourished there. He was able to major on tennis as a sport in which Repton has
ued to be among the three leading British public schools. He had learnt to love playing tennis
gh being introduced to it by his older siblings at Pipewell, and competing in all the open and
cap events at the Wellingborough tennis tournament.
eborah and I, Tim became the most wonderful playing companion, because he had a vivid memory
magination which brought all the games he played with us to life. He was passionate about Italian
d the Italian Lakes where he had been taken to on holiday. We helped him to create a complete
of the Italian lakes by making a dam in the stream running into Pipewell Pond. Each of the lakes
produced with villas, hotels and boats modelled out of the Pipewell clay which was ideal for this.
was very good at ice skating. He taught Deborah and I to figure skate, doing inside edge and outside
ircles, and how to suddenly change from skating forwards to skating backwards. He also played ice
y with special ice hockey skates and American-style proper ice hockey sticks.
ad a much more artistic bent than the other Lloyd uncles, and developed a puppet theatre in the
ell playroom. Raising money for the "Spitfire" fund. My sister, Deborah, greatly enjoyed being
d to help Tim with the puppets, but I don't remember being up to more than making noises off
behind the the scenes. His Puppet Theatre became so well known, that just before the war Bobby,
David's wife introduced him to the Impresario, 'Cocky' C.B. Cochrane, who wanted to show Tim9s
ts on the London Stage, but the outbreak of war intervened.
Tim went for an interview with the Regimental Colonel of The Rifle Brigade, his preferred
ent, for an assessment of his suitability to become an officer, he said all the wrong things,
bing himself as, "a strolling player", and talked of his love for Italian Art, and holidays spent in the
Lakes.
