FAMILY ZONE

(AND ANCESTORS)

Castle Cary

"Who else do you know at Oxford? Do you know Freddy French-Wise?"

 "No."

"Or Tom Obblethwaite or that youngest Castleton boy?"

 "No, I'm afraid not. I had a great friend called Potts."

"Potts! said Lady Circumference, and left it at that.

( Evelyn Waugh, "Decline and Fall", 1928).

Castle Cary

Above: West Bay, Bridport, Dorset, circa 1970

Below: Corfu, 1968

Keel Hall, near Chester; with Colonel and Mrs Sneed

Henry Burn Callander of Prestonhall  (Preston Hall), by  W.Skeach Cumming, 1898

Prestonhall, Midlothian, Scotland

Henry Callander, born Belgrave Square, London, 25 February, 1862; died Bath, November 16, 1928

Henry Callander

Henry with Bee

Below: Inscription in Bible

Henry with Bee

Luckington House, Marlborough Lane, Bath (bombed during World War II)

Henry with Nina

Henry with Nina

Henry with Nina

T.H.H

Nina

J. K. Potts (1911-1973)

J. R. Potts, of the Manchester Guardian

"At the time of my birth, Manchester was a great city, Cottonopolis, the mother of liberalism and the cradle of the entire industrial system. It had the greatest newspaper in the world, meaning the only independent one. The Manchester Guardian debased itself when it grew ashamed of its city of origin: a superb liberal organ was turned into an irritable rag dedicated...to the wrong kind of radicalism."  Anthony Burgess (born 1917), Little Wilson and Big God, 1987.