It's15th September 1943, and still very much in the middle of WW2, here is Grandpa William marrying again, some 5 years after Grandma Lizzie died in 1938, the year before the war. The bride and groom are almost exactly 20 years apart in age. The wedding is at St Austell, Cornwall. Both fathers have died, the groom’s in 1913 and the bride’s on 3rd June 1937. William’s daughter Olive has married Oswald Bennett, serving in WW2, the previous year. His two sons, Arthur and Fred are working in the family business, Archer Cowley & Co, from which he, William, would (if a normal, happy-to-retire, individual) be due to retire the very year of his wedding at age 65. But William never in practice retired until he died at age 91 in 1969, retaining his position as “Governing Director” for a further 25 years almost. What a man! Control freak? Inveterate dabbler? Completely unaware of the effect of his presence on other members of the family? Yes, certainly the latter. If he could have let go of the reins, who knows, his grandsons might have been willing to work in the business, and it might have stayed in the family! (Added 30.1.15): but it occurs to me that my other grandfather, Frank Penfold, likewise continued working in his ‘family firm’, Camerons Estate Agents, in Willesden Green, more or less to the end of his life, in his eighties, and I have never thought of him as a control freak. I’m sure he wasn’t. So no doubt, as the old song says, ‘It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it’ that counts.