I'm Peter, Len's son-in-law. Len always used to say that he believed he had had the best years of the 20th century. He pointed out that though he lived through the war, he was too young to have been conscripted. He was subsequently able, when starting his working life, to enjoy the economic prosperity which followed the war and endured into the 1950s. His was the first generation to have the benefit of the National Health Service, and, later, experience the relaxation of social constraints in the 1960s. As a young man, engaged with first jazz and then rock and roll as both musical genres were imported from America. He very much enjoyed both of them. He was always very appreciative indeed of what life had given him.
p wynne
22nd February 2020
Thank you for setting up this memorial to Leonard.
We hope that you find it a positive experience developing the site and that it becomes a place of comfort and inspiration for you to visit whenever you want or need to.
Sent by E M Dorman on 17/02/2020
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.
Extract from a poem by Henry Scott Holland