I have been going through my family history files, inventorying it, sorting, and of course removing the duplicates.  There are a lot of duplicates.  I found this letter my mother Sheila Paulin wrote to one of her Australian cousins (Squelch family) about Norman Paulin’s adventures with his in-laws.  They were a part of the Bell-ringers at St John’s Church, Perry Barr.

“My father’s mother [Emma Jennings Paulin] was not impressed by my mother’s bell-ringing relatives.  During the engagement Dad was invited along on the bellringers outing to Dovedale.  The bus stopped at every pub on the way home, and Dad arrived home not feeling too well. His mother met him at the door to tell him she’d saved him some gruel for supper, and he was very sick and had to be put do bed.  Dad didn’t go on any more of their outings, but he always had a laugh when we passed the “Jolly Sailor” at Tamworth, which was the last stop he remembered.”