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Found in my dad's boxes...

Some pictures and stuff from Michael Allen's childhood.
Now is this vanity publishing, or what?

Picture of Two Footballers painted by Michael in 1957.
Two Footballers (titled by my dad). I think he entered this in one of his work's Art Competitions, and I think it won a prize or something. I suspect he was a judge or an official of some sort, but if you can't use nepotism, then what use is it?
Painted (OK, OK, daubed...) by Michael Allen on 7th May 1957. I was 3½.


Picture of clocks from Michael's school workbook from 1959.
Clocks from October 1959 to tell the time of day - from one of many schoolbooks my dad had kept.


Picture of foxes painted by Michael.
Once a-pon a time there lived three little foxes.
Thay did't wear truoses and thay did't wear sockes.

My spelling may have improved (and the advent of the spell-checker has aided that, too) but you'll see my writing hasn't. I type a lot.

I don't have a date for this, but I suspect it's also late 1950's. It's painted on a cardboard insert that used to feature in Shredded Wheat boxes (and may still do).


Picture of a note about pocket money for Michael from Alf.
I don't really need to add to this, except to say that he kept this too. As I shall.


School Report 22nd July 1963

Picture of Michael's school report from 1963.
And my last school report from when my mother and I still lived with him.
OK, it's the best of the bunch - another report from March 1961 shows me coming 25th out of 46, rather than 1st as here.
All you teachers: - note the class size of 45. The "group" was total number of pupils in that age-range in the school - the year size.


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Text by Alf Allen 1999. Edited and spell-checked by Mike Allen 2003.
Most photos taken by Alf and most illustrations drawn by him; scanned from his albums, etc., now in my possession and digitally edited 2003-2005.
Yes, yes, the photos and layout need updating - the website was first designed in "dial-up days", before any sort of broadband, and everything had to be small so it uploaded and downloaded fast. Work to do, I know.

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