Calling Brian in Swaziland

March 1964

South Yorkshire Times, March 14.

Calling Brian in Swaziland.


Former South Yorkshire folk all over the world read the “South Yorkshire Times” to keep up with local news, and among them this week will be a 19 years old Conisbrough soldier serving in South Africa, will make up for missing his grandfather’s 80th birthday by reading about it in the “Times”

Lance Cpl Brian Horne, of 21 Park gate Avenue, Conanby, is one of 31 grandchildren of former Cadeby Collier, Mr John William Milnes, 13, Wadworth Street, Denaby Main, who celebrated his birthday on Monday. Because Brian, we serving in Swaziland with the York and Lancs’s Regiment, couldn’t join the family, his mother, Mrs Emma on will send him a copy of this edition of the “Times”

a photograph of Mr Milnes, and his family at Monday’s get-together will also help to bridge the gap which separates Brian, former high jump champion at Conisbrough Northcliffe school, for his family.

Mr Milnes used to be well known in the district for two unusual hobbies – making miniature violins out of old cigar boxes, and breeding Canaries.

On his birthday many members of his family, which includes 18 great-grandchildren, visited Mr Milnes at his home. Among them were two daughters, Mrs Violet Woodhouse, of Parkgate Avenue, Conanby, and BrianĀ“s mother, who made her father, a birthday cake, and four sons, Harry, John and Ernest Milnes, Denaby, and Roy of, Lilac Grove, Conisbrough.