Jack and Nellie Scarisbrick, from Southport, on their wedding day in the early 1940s
WHAT happened to the happy wartime couple in this old photograph?
The bride and groom were Jack and Nellie Scarisbrick, who came from Southport.
But since the early 1940s, this picture of their nuptials has been among the belongings of the late Gertrude Cross, of Shropshire.
The link is that Jack, a Royal Engineer, was billeted with Mrs Cross at her home in the village of Hook-a-Gate, near Shrewsbury, during the early years of the Second World War.
It was during those years, when Jack worked as a signalman on the old Potts railway line – which had been commandeered by the Army – that he tied the knot with Nellie.
Jean Duckett, Mrs Cross’s daughter, has faint memories of Jack and another soldier staying at her home when she was eight or nine years old.
“Nellie used to come and stay, and I remember Jack giving up his bed upstairs for her,� said Mrs Duckett, now aged 76.
“I remember he was a good pianist and was a church organist before being called up.�
Mrs Cross died in 1995 aged 91, and Mrs Duckett wants the original of this photograph to return to the Scarisbricks, or their family.
She believes Jack may have been among the men evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940 and said: “I just wondered if he had survived the war�.
Are you a relation of Jack and Nellie Scarisbrick? If so, call LookBack on 01704-398287 or email robert.alcock@southportvisiter.co.uk If you think you can help, you can also call Jean Duckett on 01743-247483.
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