Nina Mary Tredwin & Alan Knowles

Ruth Knowles	Luke Knowles

Nina Mary Tredwin

Nina was born on the 4th February 1952 to Peter Francis Tredwin and Shelia Mary Tredwin their only daughter. At this time they lived at Whitehaven (now called Newberry's) cottage. South Common. Axminster. Devon. She went to school at the near by All Saints school and had an idyllic childhood in the country. At the age of Seven Nina's father was promoted and the family moved to 3 Greenleaves ave., Bromley Heath, Downend at Bristol. Hear he attended Blackhorse School until a place became available at Bromley heath Junior School. Then due to promotion the family moved to Torquay when she was ten leaving his older brother John Francis at Bristol. Here she attended Audley Park Secondary Morden School until the age of fifteen, when due again to her fathers promotion (this time to bank manager at Midland Bank Ilfracombe) they moved to North Devon to live at Little Haven between Mortehoe Station and Sandy Cross on the Mortehoe road. She attended Ilfracombe Secondary Modern School. After school she became a hotel receptionist at the Lee Bay Hotel at Lee near Ilfracombe and worked there with the Smith family who were family friends until they sold the Hotel. It was in this period she met Alan Knowles and a long term relationship started. She then went to work for the Narracott Hotel owned by the lancaster family, also family friends. Alan's mother cleaned for a lady at Nettledene Furshill Ilfracombe, when the lady died she left the bungerlow to Alan's mother. At this point Alan had the house and bought the council house his mother lived in for his mother and sister which would then go to his sister and husband. Soon Nina and Alan were married at Ilfracombe and the reception at the Narracott Hotel at Woolacombe.

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