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Kynoch Follies help needed!

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vmanning28

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Hello all. I need help in time for christmas...My great grandma Audrey Kitson (nee Lewis) whom is 87 was in WWII and in a entertainment troop called the Kynock Follies. She has shown me a newspaper article and told me lots of stories about her time in the troop and I was hopeing anybody out there has some pictures or a relative who was in the troop. There job on a night was to travel round entertaining the troops and in the day time she worked in kynock amunitions factory now (I.M.I) she worked in the accounts department (general offices). She said remembers a Valerie and her dance partner was called Pat, a 4 piece band from the factory, a factory manager called Mr HILL who organsied all the military places they visited and a comic called TED. Any pics or stories you have please let me know so i can print off and compile for a lovely gift. I had great sucsess on here a few months ago when I was looking for her deciesed sons grave and she was amazed to find he even had a headstone, so am looking forward to see if anybody can help me here x
 
vmanning28 said:
Hello all. I need help in time for christmas...My great grandma Audrey Kitson (nee Lewis) whom is 87 was in WWII and in a entertainment troop called the Kynock Follies. She has shown me a newspaper article and told me lots of stories about her time in the troop and I was hopeing anybody out there has some pictures or a relative who was in the troop. There job on a night was to travel round entertaining the troops and in the day time she worked in kynock amunitions factory now (I.M.I) she worked in the accounts department (general offices). She said remembers a Valerie and her dance partner was called Pat, a 4 piece band from the factory, a factory manager called Mr HILL who organsied all the military places they visited and a comic called TED. Any pics or stories you have please let me know so i can print off and compile for a lovely gift. I had great sucsess on here a few months ago when I was looking for her deciesed sons grave and she was amazed to find he even had a headstone, so am looking forward to see if anybody can help me here x
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My Grandfather was Ted Patience and we have a photo of him with the Kynoch Follies, he was the violinist not the comic, let me know if you want us to send you a copy. Grandad worked at Kynoch as a pattern maker for 35 years probably from around 1928 until he retired in the mid 1960's. He was from Gourock in Scotland and met my Grandma Gertrude Jones from Birmingham during the first world war when he was a stretcher bearer and she was a telephonist. They married and lived in Scotland until my father was 6 and then moved to Birmingham for work in 1927 eventually settling in Melrose Road. If you do get lots of details of the Kynoch Follies troup we would be very interested to know more about them.
 
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