I had a photo of Steve my cousin when he was about 10 and an old postcard of his Dad, Bert your Grandad, doing conjuring tricks from the war years (or maybe earlier) labelled ‘Pop Millard’. I guess this was a sort of advert for children’s parties. I have tried to find them but they must have got left behind somewhere when we moved to Denmark in the 1980s, though I can still see them clearly in my mind’s eye. Steve was about 7 years older than me, so when we visited from Poplar he really was someone I looked up to in awe when we played cricket or football in the garden – he let me win sometimes, I suppose so I shouldn’t become too downhearted . We lived in Poplar until about 1953-4 (I think), so seeing the ‘Call the Midwife’ series, now being shown on Danish TV, made me think a lot about those days recently. Of course, they weren’t the ‘good old days’ but there was a very strong community and family spirit. Then we moved to Harlow New Town and lost touch with Steve and his family somewhat, though every so often we’d hear news about his adventures on his motorbike, the Isle of Man and the TT cross-country motorcycle races around the island. Then my memory tells me Steve enterprisingly turned this into a business by becoming a travel agent for the racers, and organizing many of the logistics in getting the bikes there and back. After that, we lost touch for many decades especially once Inger and I moved to Denmark and started our own family there. We swapped houses with a family in Hackney in 2016 and it was fantastic to see Steve come along, still tall, imposing and with a great big smile (though he wasn’t sporting a leather jacket, to my feigned disappointment 🤣), and lovely to talk about old times in Cockney-land and what we’ve been up to since. Jeremy Millard