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By Wilfred Chinnock,Peter Edmonds

WILFRED CHINNOCK tells of his years as butler within the family of a press baron, the 1st Lord Rothermere. existence one of the aristocracy of the Thirties is vividly defined during this ‘upstairs, downstairs’ story of a of a tender guy forged right into a global so very varied from his modest Somerset upbringing. He tells of ways he used to be selected, on the age of fourteen, to move on my own to London to take in a publish at the employees of the Windham membership in St James’s.
We persist with him on his many adventures till he meets Lord Rothermere who appoints him to the placement of butler, to reside and paintings in nice homes in London, Norfolk and Scotland and we pay attention of a few of the treasures that decorated his place of work.
one of many well-known personalities Mr Chinnock met have been Lord Beaverbrook, Winston Churchill, Herr von Ribbentrop, David Lloyd-George and Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe.
He as soon as acknowledged: “My tale reads like a fairytale. humans say it didn’t fairly occur however it did. It used to be our life.”

WILFRED CHINNOCK penned the manuscript for this booklet within the Nineteen Eighties making sure that it may be released. His efforts have been thwarted and he died in 1994 with the undertaking no longer completed.
In 2009, his son-in-law, Peter Edmonds, determined, on re-reading the tale, to try ebook. With this in brain he set approximately modifying the unique manuscript. for that reason, his examine led him to many fascinating evidence and tales. He stumbled on it tempting so as to add those to Mr Chinnock’s writings yet, as they're all within the public area he has left it to the reader to do his personal research!
Wilfred Chinnock served as a driving force with the Royal military provider Corps throughout the warfare and used to be at the first convoy that entered the liberated Berlin.
He pursued a occupation in family provider and catering after the battle, to start with in Derbyshire after which, on relocating to Bognor Regis, on the Clarehaven resort. within the Fifties, he and his spouse ran the Primrose Café subsequent to the Picturedrome.
He spent the rest of his operating lifestyles with Hago and Lec Refrigeration.

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