This site has been created in honour of my dad Alec Gibson (Albert Edward Gibson as he was  christened).  He was born in Hackney on the 18th April 1917 and was the third child of  William  Edward Gibson and Beatrice Amelia Vaus.  Nanny Gibson (Beatrice) had eleven children and although  they weren't poor, they were not exactly well off either.  Life was pretty hard I understand.   Alec joined the RAF at the beginning of the war and met my mum Peggy (Margaret Clemons Sidwell) in  Weston Super Mare.  Alec was stationed near there.  They were married in 1940 and moved to St.  Athens in South Wales where my sisters Julia (1941)and Lesley (1945) were born.  I was born in  Cavendish Mansions, Clapton Square, E5 in 1949 as the family had then moved back to London.  Alec  worked for several removal companies as an Estimator and became a Director of Bullens Removal  Company overseeing large industrial removals such as The Daily Mail, 10 Downing Street, Shell, and  St. Thomas' Hospital. In the early 1960s he joined Beck & Pollitzer and then created his own  removal company with some of his brothers.  They named the company GBN Removal Company Ltd.  He  sold the company and retired in the 1970s and moved from Buckhurst Hill after my mother died in  1976 initially to Hartley in Kent to be with Daphne and then to Woolpit in Suffolk.