The "LIFE of BRIAN" - Part 7

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The LIFE of BRIAN Part 7

……….COINCIDENCE 1 Numerous males within the ALVEY lineage were Blacksmiths - the earliest engineers . Certainly NOT professional pianists
……… COINCIDENCE 2 My Grandmother ALVEY was born and lived within 100M of my office in Nottingham ( Note! I am now naturally and automatically into “New World” speak - It shows you what 30 years of use can do) - I found out 30 years later

I met my wife Sandra, - Nottingham born and bred, and we married. However as I was not familiar with the area, ( in fact I had to look at an atlas to precisely locate where Nottingham was in the UK, before relocating here) it was Sandra who decided that Burton Joyce would be a pleasant area to live, she selected a house that had come up for sale and made arrangements with the Estate Agent to view. We met with the Agent to look over the property and area, we both instantly loved what we saw and agreed to buy the very next morning………………………….

Our home of 30+ years in Hillcrest Gardens - BJ. and view from our second home in BJ,

Sandra and I purchased the land - within 100M of first home - designed by ourselves in 1974

It was after a short period of working in Nottingham , that my employer - Tube Investments - Churchill Automatic Assembly, decided to relocate the company back to the Midlands to Redditch - Worcestershire. As the General Manager of the operation they wanted me to re-establish the business with as many of the existing workforce as could be persuaded to relocate. Those who would not be persuaded could opt for a redundancy settlement. After taking a “straw poll” of the employees ( all of whom possessed specialist skills and individual experiences) it was my opinion that the relocation would be a complete failure. For out of a workforce of approx 80 only 4 were willing to move with their families away from Nottingham - Quite frankly there was no way was I going to leave Nottingham and Burton Joyce either, now that I was newly married and buying a dream home (although I did agree that I would supervise the to re establishment of the project as a working proposition at the new site ( which was within an existing manufacturing facility controlled by the Group. What happened in reality was unbelievably fortunate and opportune. The T.I. company had an existing order book to fulfil, without the capacity or staff to expedite. It was therefore agreed , with T.I.‘s blessing, together with a colleague who was my number two, to form a company based here in Nottingham to take on the worked under T.I.’s wing, using several of the Nottingham workforce who had decided not to relocate and had not already found new employment. This worked very satisfactorily for all parties
…….COINCIDENCE 3 Neither Sandra my wife or I knew until 30 years later that Burton Joyce where we were to spend the rest of our lives together within the surrounding locations which was the “Hot Bed” of the ALVEY namesake and that Burton Joyce, Woodboro and Lowdham in particular had registered the vast majority of the earliest ALVEY families - this area was obviously my ROOTS and unbeknown, I was back in.. .. .. .. .. .. .. -

"THE BOX"

Comments from other Alveys families and old buddies will be appreciated

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