David Charles Corbett – extracts from his “memoire” about his parents

Dad wrote well, with colour and humour, and his enjoyment of writing comes through. When he sat down early this century to reflect on memories from the previous one, he took pleasure from the challenge and acknowledged that it was very much his own telling, warts and all.

He made a gift at Christmas time to each of his children, in 2004 I think – a shorter version of these writings, with photos and a yellow cover. Forever known as “the yellow book” we have our copies still and the set of original photos that he chose to illustrate it. It is too big to post as a whole. In this post, I have taken a preface and one chapter about his parents Percy and Margaret Corbett from the longer version he wrote. I hope you find it a good read. I do. DCC memories – his parents