Chapter Five

The Cook Generation

Frederick, Bruce & their own

20th century Ryde & beyond

Ethel’s children — among them Frederick, held as an infant in the three-generation photograph of 1927, and Bruce, who carries the line onward.

In the writing

This chapter is still being gathered

The Cook children of Bridge Road, Ryde — the generation that steps out of the archive and into living memory. As records are drawn together, its story will be told here in full.

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