39. Anthony Richard¹³ CREACALL (Ernest¹², Thomas¹¹, Thomas¹⁰, William⁹, Francis⁸ CREAKAL, Francis⁷ CREEKWELL, Robert⁶ CREKWELL, William⁵ CREACOLE, Thomas⁴ CRECOLE, Joan³, Richard², William¹)⁽⁶¹⁾ (#1) was born Bowden, Cheshire, England Wenesday 20th September 1944.⁽⁶²⁾

He married twice.

Wedding at Beulah Pentecostal Church, Bury, on 22nd March 1966

He married Rita BROMWICH in Bury, Lancashire, Saturday 12th March 1966.⁽⁶³⁾ (Rita BROMWICH is #2.) Rita was born in Jericho, Bury, Lancashire 3rd August 1943. Rita is the daughter of George BROMWICH and Nellie PEARSON. She and Tony honeymooned in Fort William, Scotland, Saturday 12th March 1966. At 23 years of age Rita became the mother of Stephen Richard CREACALL in Jericho, Bury, Lancashire, Friday 28th April 1967. At 24 years of age Rita became the mother of Deborah Jayne CREACALL in Jericho, Bury, Lancashire, Thursday 4th April 1968.

Rita with Stephen and Deborah, 1968

Rita also 1969 from 22 Victoria Lane, Whitefield, Manchester. Rita was divorced from Anthony Richard CREACALL in Bury Magistrates Court, Saturday 15th June 1974. At 32 years of age Rita became the mother of Richard MARSDON 27th September 1975.

Our Wedding Day 1974

He married Elaine Ann ATKINSON in Dukinfield, Cheshire, Tuesday 18th June 1974.⁽⁶⁴⁾ (Elaine Ann ATKINSON is #5.) Elaine was born in Ashton-under-lyne, Lancashire Sunday 1st June 1952. Elaine is the daughter of Leonard ATKINSON and Doris BOTTOMS.

ELAINE:

Elaine's baptism certificate. St Mark's Church, Dukinfield.

She was baptized in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England, Sunday 27th July 1952. Religion: Church of England.

"When I grow up I'm going to be that high" Elaine in the rear garden of her auntie Edith (#416) and uncle Georges (#437) home at 114, Crawford Street, Ashton-under-lyne

Elaine (third from the left) at Mrs Walmersley's dance class, 1960c

Bronze certificate for Old Time Dancing, 25th March 1961

Elaine rides "Tango" at the Mottram Show July 1964

Elaine at 8 years old with (left to right) Karen Rhodes, Lynda Cook, Spencer Cook outside 14, Medway Avenue, Bridlington, The boarding house of Mr and Mrs (Rose) Cook.

1965.

Elaine and Denise Mitchael enjoy candyfloss at the harbour, Bridlington, Yorkshire

1966.

Elaine with Barry and Susan Rhodes on her visit to Benidorm, Spain

, 1967.

Elaine and Karen Rhodes eat hamburgers on a visit to Blackpool. June, 1968

Elaine with Jean and Sue in the Beachcomber Bar, Butlins, Skegness

, 1970.

Elaine poses at the Birdcage Club, Ashton-under-lyne, Lancashire

At 20 years of age Elaine became the mother of Mark Alan CREACALL in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, Wednesday 27th December 1972. Elaine, as Mark Alan CREACALL's mother, presented him at his baptism in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, Saturday 30th December 1972.⁽⁶⁵⁾ Elaine, as Mark Alan CREACALL's mother, presented him at his baptism in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England, Sunday 3rd June 1973.⁽⁶⁶⁾

Elaine at Chester Zoo wheeling Mark in his pram

1973.

Elaine with Mark in Stamford Park, Ashton-under-lyne

April 1974

Elaine with friends on her hen night,

15th June 1974 from Dukinfield Central Club. She and Tony honeymooned in The Palace Hotel, South Shore, Blackpool, Tuesday 18th June 1974.

The Old Chapel (Unitarian), Dukinfield, place of our marriage.

Tuesday 18th June 1974

Elaine with Mark on the beach at Alcudia, Majorca, Spain, 1978

Elaine with Mark and mum and dad, Magaluf, Spain, 1986

Elaine with her best friend and mentor, Julie

1992, Dukinfield Central Club.

Celebrating our 25th Wedding Anniversary 1999

Reunion with Bridlington holiday landlady Rose and husband Spencer after 35 years, August, 2000

TONY:

Southfield Maternity Home, Bowdon, Cheshire, scene of my birth

27 Lincoln Avenue, Stretford

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Whit Walk 1952c. I am in the centre carrying my Pac-a-Mac

6 Willingdon Drive, Prestwich, Manchester, England 1947,

Me at under four years.

The occasion was Grandad and Grandma's Golden Wedding. The back row shows Barbara, Graham (Hinchliffe) Bill (Fletcher) and Joan (Fletcher)

, 1948

Whitsuntide, 1949c, Newtown Street, off Bury Old Road, Prestwich

Me (second from left) as soldier in Sunday School Christmas Pantomime at the Heaton Park Methodist Church Hall.

Prestwich, Manchester, England, 1952.

Whit Walk 1952c. I am in the centre carrying my Pac-a-Mac

Prestwich, Manchester.

96 Milton Road Prestwich, Manchester. Our home from 1954c.

My first year at secondary school, aged 12. I am the one wearing glasses. The "Transition" form is flanked by Miss Neilson, class teacher, and Mr Hulme, head master.

Prestwich, Manchester, 1956.

Close-up from Transition class photo

1957 in Prestwich, Manchester.

Me as a pupil of Heys Boys School

Tony's occupation: Warehouseman (Ironmongery) in Miller Street, Manchester, Monday 11th January 1960. Tony was a Prestwich Wheelers Cycling Club member in Prestwich, Manchester, England, 1960. Tony was a West Pennine Racing Club member in Heywood, Lancashire, 1960. Tony was a Fallowfield Cycle Racing Track member in Fallowfield, Manchester, 1961.

In 1961/2 I was a regular visitor to Finigan's Dance Hall, Seymore Road, Crumpsal, Manchester. Keith (sat to my right and Larry are the only two names I can remember.

Tony also 1961 in Crumpsal, Manchester. Tony was listed as a member of a church in Bury, Lancashire, 1962. Became Sunday School teacher and later Sunday School Superintendent (leader). Also, started the Wednesday Childrens Bible Club and preached in the church in a lay capacity.

He was baptized in Bury, Lancashire, 1963. Religion: Assemblies of God. He and Rita honeymooned in Fort William, Scotland, Saturday 12th March 1966. At 22 years of age Tony became the father of Stephen Richard CREACALL in Jericho, Bury, Lancashire, Friday 28th April 1967. Tony's occupation: Door-to-door vacuume cleaner salesman in Bootle Street, Manchester, 1967. At 23 years of age Tony became the father of Deborah Jayne CREACALL in Jericho, Bury, Lancashire, Thursday 4th April 1968. Tony's occupation: Fork-lift truck driver in Radcliffe, Lancashire, 1968. Tony's occupation: Entertainer in UK and parts of Europe, 1970.

My first publicity photo.

Tony also 1971 in Whitefield, Manchester, England. Tony's occupation: Entertainer in Prestwich, Manchester, England, 1972. At 28 years of age Tony became the father of Mark Alan CREACALL in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, Wednesday 27th December 1972. Tony was a Heaton Park Golf Club member in Prestwich, Manchester, England, 1973. Tony's occupation: part-time representative in Prestwich, Manchester, England, 1973. Tony was divorced from Rita BROMWICH in Bury Magistrates Court, Saturday 15th June 1974. He and Elaine honeymooned in The Palace Hotel, South Shore, Blackpool, Tuesday 18th June 1974.

The Old Chapel (Unitarian), Dukinfield, place of our marriage.

Tuesday 18th June 1974 in Dukinfield, Cheshire.

Tony's part-time occupation 1974: Cleaner, Manchester City Council, Swan Street, Manchester, to boost his income on his marriage to Elaine.

My publicity photo, 1974

Tony's occupation: Entertainer in Prestwich, Manchester, England, 1974. Tony's occupation: part-time television installer in Prestwich, Manchester, England, 1975.

Publicity photo for my one and only record release "Bobbin Girls, Bobbin Boys" 1978

Tony's occupation: Entertainer in Prestwich, Manchester, England, 1978. Tony's occupation: Entertainer in Prestwich, Manchester, England, 1979. Tony was a Hyde Olympic Cycling Club member in Hyde, Cheshire, 1982. Tony's occupation: Part-time Assurance Salesman in Stockport, 1983. Tony was a Conservative Party member in Stockport, 1983. Tony was a Team Sportif Cycle Racing Club member in Tameside, Manchester, 1985.

Singing in the 80's

Tony's occupation: Compere/entertainer in Prestwich, Manchester, England, 1986c.

Sandra's Bar, Benidorm, where I was working as an entertainer April 1987 (left to right) Danny Carr (agent), Mike (holidaying drummer), Elaine, Mark and me

The Team Sportif Junior Racing Squad in Benidorm 1987 (left to right) Pete Wardle, Rob Wilkinson, Me, John Hargreaves, Ian Hallam, Mark and Jon Clarke

Tony: "1987 saw me taking a group of lads from the cycle club to Benidorm, Spain, ( I got an engagement entertaining there) for some early season training and racing. The main feature of the trip was that the Vaulta de Espana was starting from Benidorm just a few days after we arrived. We met up with several of the teams and on one day the lads rode up the mountains with the previous years Tour de France winner, Louren Fignion and his team. The fact that the Vuelta was starting there was a complete surprise to all of us. Information about cycle racing in Spain was very sparse in the UK at that time. We still managed to get two races in by hiring a rickety old van and driving hair raising trips over the mountains. The lads came back with some huge trophies"

Tony was a member of Brookdale Golf Club in Woodhouses, Failsworth, Manchester, 1990-2000.

Publicity photo 1992

Tony's occupation: Entertainer in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England, 1992. Tony was a New Labour Party" member in Dukinfield, Cheshire, 1996. "Having been a Tory all my life (born and bred, you might say) I decided to join the New Labour Party being thoroughly sick of the the way the Tories were treating the "little" man and lining their own pockets (it seemed) not to mention all the sleaze. The final straw was denying this nation the EU Social Contract".

1997, Landudno. We stopped at the famouse Headlands Hotel.

I took this photo on Debbie's visit to the UK in October 1997. One of the rare shots I got her to smile. I can't remember what I was doing it seems to be amusing to some. (L to R) Brandon, Elaine, Thomas, Chris, Richard and Debbie.

THE IMAGE

Sometime in 1998 this image appeared on the concrete flag stones at the side of the house (2 Lime Close)

The image holds a staff topped by the Greek letter "Omega". I see a face half way down the staff, a gargoyle to the right of it and a animals head (sheep or bull?) below that.

An intriguing thing is that despite many cleanings, even with bleach, year after year, the image remains. On one occasion a mechanical pressure spray was acquired to clean all the flag-stones around the house. Before the machine reached the image it broke down.

Tony's occupation October 1998: Part-time Care Assistant, Manchester. "With the decline of the Club entertainment scene I thought I should prepare for the worst and so took a course as care assistants".

Celebrating our 25th Wedding Anniversary 1999

Tony anniversary Wednesday 18th June 1999 in Dukinfield, Cheshire. "I had spent weeks organising a small, informal get together of some of Elaines oldest friends and I tried to keep the occasion a secret from her but, with a few days to go, I had to tell her or I would have been in danger of serious physical injury".

We enjoy sangria in Torramalinos, September 2000

Tony traveled in Europe, October 2000. "We traveled to Torremolinos and drank sangria while listening to a Peruvian flute band (the sangria was grossly over-priced)".

"I force Bill (a life long Manchester United fan) to hug my Manchester City shirt"

October 2000. "Me and Bill met up on the Costa del Sol, Spain, after a gap of 20 years"

Convalescing with a ginger beer after my heart scare at Benidorm November 200

Tony traveled in Europe, December 2000. December 2000 saw me heading for the infamous Benidorm, Spain, on a four week entertainment contract. Three nights into the engagement I acquired a stomach problem that developed into possible food poisoning. This put pressure on my heart resulting in one heart valve mal-functioning and and so to hospital in an emergency ambulance. I was given five lots of medication and told "No alcohol". I think this was the only English word the hospital staff knew. The photo shows me convalescing with a glass of ginger ale.

Me, Elaine and Mario, wonderful, energetic barman at the Porto Fino Restaurant, Xemxija, St Paul's Bay, Malta, February 2001

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Reunion of three Hinchliffe cousins (L.to R. Bill, me and Graham). Bill Fletcher came over from Spain, April, 2001, and we met at Grahms house in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Manchester.The first time for 35 years that we had been in the same room together.

September 11th, 2001

Our holiday of a life time had an horrific start.

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Tony. Main Occupation throughout life: Entertainer.

Here follows a brief autobiography:

My first recollection in life is falling from my small three wheeler cycle onto the concrete road outside my home at 6 Willingdon Drive. I fell square onto my face and remember, not so much the pain, but the throbing and swelling as though my face was getting larger and larger like a balloon. My next recollection is nestling in my grandmothers arms and watching the living room door open and my mother, seeing the state of my face, playing heck with my grandmother for not calling for the doctor. I remember grandma had put butter on my face. A standard remedy for bumps and bruises in those days.

The feature of my starting primary school was incontinence. Primary school lessons I don't recollect, except to say that I think I enjoyed maths and religious education. I remember Miss Pickstone. She was blond, tall and slim and had large pointed breasts. Vaguely, I remember moving from class room to class room as the years went by.

Out of school my time was taken up almost entirely with visits to Heaton Park. I became an avid bird watcher. It was only in recent years I realised why it was so much of a challenge to discover new species of birds. It was just after the war and the park had been used for military training (there were several spots where we would dig up spent bullets as souvenirs). Also, during the war people would be after any wild life they could get there hands on for food.

At about six-years-old I received my first "whiskering". I can't remember my dad so I'll never know if he did it to me, but I do remember my chum Malcolm Clayton's dad sitting me on his knee and giving me a rare old "scrubbing" round the cheeks. It was about that time that the first car appeared at Willingdon Drive, much to the excitement of all the lads.

When I was seven or eight-years-old I developed a habit of stealing. I stole from my mother's purse and, this was my first feeling of shame, I got caught with the lad next door's cricket ball. Rather pathetically, I'd painted it with the cardinal red paint my mum used for painting the front and back steps in the hope that he wouldn't recognise it.

One of my firmest memories of Willingdon Drive is being with Barbara in the back garden playing with a golf club and ball. Barbara was encouraging me to hit it and, of course, the inevitable happened, I did, right through the back living room window. I remember my granddad, who was by then totally blind, saying, "What was that" as it whistled passed his head. Bye-the-way, my memories of "gramps", as we would call him, are of a very nice old chap who I never heard a cross word from. I used to guide him to St. Margaret's pub saying "up" and "down" as we came to a curb-stone. When we got a television in the mid-fifties, I commentated on boxing matches for him, not knowing then his strong affinity to his younger brother Alfred who boxed while in the army (Lancashire Fusiliers) and died in military service in Crete in 1904c (circumstances yet to be discovered).

I started secondary school as a dunce. I was put in the "Transition" class where my teacher was an elderly lady called Mrs Neilson. She had a profound effect on me. She was a tremendous person. I couldn't read when I came under her charge but, by god, with her encouragement, reading became my life blood.

In spite of my earlier experience of self propelled wheeled transport, about the age of fourteen I was desperate for a bike. Mum eventually relented, she was fearful for my life, and had Barbara's ladies style (no cross-bar) bike "done-up" for me. Thus started an almost fanatical interest in cycling and, later, cycle racing.

When I left school I wanted to be a joiner but there was a huge influx of kids on the job market at that time, war baby's they called us, so there was no chance of that. I started work at my granddad's old employer, Baxendale & Co.

My first romance was Maureen Dalton (maybe because she was the first girl that ever noticed me). She was illegitimately born. Her mum was in the army and had dumped her and she lived with her mum's sister's family on the Langley Council Estate, Middleton, but, most importantly or unfortunately, Maureen was a staunch Roman Catholic. I remember walking her home from a Dance Hall in Crumpsall on the night we met, New Year's Eve, 1961. We passed the church I had, for some reason, entered a few days earlier on Christmas Eve (very inebriated). I told her of the occurrence, she said, "That's not a Catholic Church, is it?". Oh! dear, catholics and non-catholics were not compatible in those days. So, who got a broken heart then? Strangely enough, I only knew Maureen from then till St. Patrick's night (48 days) but she turned my life completely up-side-down.

I turned to religion to try and get over Maureen, eventually joining the Pentecostal Movement, some of the happiest years of my life. I read and studied the bible from cover to cover. In 1962 I bought an old Mobelette moped and the following year, a new one. I ran the Sunday School at Beulah Pentecostal Church, started a Wednesday night childrens Bible Club and preached in a lay capacity. It was at the church that I met Rita and we got married (both virgins, of course) and started a family.

Soon, though, I realised the need to put food on the table and my duties and attendance at church became less and my attendance at work became more. I was working 12 hours a day 7 days a week at the East Lancashire Paper Mill until I found what I was realy good at, and where there was easy money to be had. Thus started my entertaining career in 1968.

My vocal chords had been stretched through the church, singing gusty gospel songs, and the mill that I was working in was huge and voices resonated like a gigantic echo chamber, and in the open top hoist (lift/elevator), even more so. Well, I must have got enough confidence from all that to try my hand, and so I did.

After many, many talent competitions in the Manchester pubs and clubs I got my first booking. Radcliffe Working Mens Club. Five "spots" for three pounds and began my search for "stardom".

I bought an old Ford Anglia van for 70 pounds, only to have it "written-off" a few months later when someone ploughed into my rear end. I got 25 pounds from the insurance company. I couldn't really argue because I had not passed my driving test at that time so was technically un-insured, driving without a qualified driver with me. In fact, it was several years before I did pass my test. However, mum came to the rescue and gave me 200 pounds from her meagre savings to buy another car. I met Elaine about this time and on Friday 13th August 1971, while dashing between clubs (three or four clubs a night was the norm at that time), she was with me when it was my turn to plough into the back of another car, strangely enough, another "artiste", Sheila Sexton. I wrote her car off on the spot and made my car terminal ill.

Well, that's enough. The rest of my life can be gleaned from the bare-bone facts that are in this program.

Historical events during the life of Anthony Richard CREACALL: 1st non-stop around the world flight - refueled 4 times in midair on February 2, 1945; British troops withdraw from Syria on July 5, 1946; Britain agrees to keep troops in Germany until peace fully secured on July 6, 1948; The British iron and steel industries are nationalised on November 24, 1949; Three trains collide in London and kill 78 people on August 10, 1952; Philosopher Bertrand Russell urges the banning of the atomic bomb on September 7, 1955; Britain goes against the UN and bombs Port Said on October 31, 1956; Eamon De Valera is voted back in Ireland on July 3, 1957; Macmillan replaces Eden as Prime Minister on October 1, 1957; birth of Prince Edward of England on February 10, 1960; Francis Chichester sails the Atlantic single-handed on July 21, 1960; E. Germany completed construction of the Berlin Wall on August 15, 1961; Britain's second nuclear test takes place in Nevada on July 12, 1962; Lord Beverage dies on October 16, 1963; The World Cup goes missing in London, presumed stolen on March 20, 1966; Fifty thousand demonstrate against the Vietnam war on October 27, 1968; Writer EM Forster dies on July 6, 1970; Britain uses powers of detention in Northern Ireland on August 25, 1971; The state of emergency and direct action by British troops continues in Ulster on July 31, 1972; A long-running case over thalidomide ends in a £20 million award on July 30, 1973; Labour just gets in with a tiny majority in the second election of the year on November 10, 1974; The Tories get their first woman leader in Margaret Thatcher on November 2, 1975; Bulgarian Geogi markov is killed by a poisoned umbrella in London on September 29, 1978; Lord Mountbatten is blown up on his boat on August 27, 1979; Over 20 000 women encircle Greenham Common base on December 12, 1982; The Tories led by Mrs Thatcher win a landslide victory on September 6, 1983; 40 football fans die when a fire sweeps through the stands in Bradford on November 5, 1985; Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson on July 23, 1986; Hundreds of people die or are trapped when a British ferry capsizes on June 3, 1987; Mrs Thatcher steps down as leader of the Conservatives on November 22, 1990.

Anthony Richard CREACALL and Rita BROMWICH had the following children:

45 i. Stephen Richard¹⁴ CREACALL (#3) was born in Jericho, Bury, Lancashire Friday 28th April 1967. Main Occupation: Woodworker.

46 ii. Deborah Jayne CREACALL (#4) was born in Jericho, Bury, Lancashire Thursday 4th April 1968.

Debbie and Nick get married 1992

She married Nicholas David BURTON in Mississague, Ontario, Canada, 1992. (Nicholas David BURTON is #33.) Nickie was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England 15th November 1967. Nickie is the son of David BURTON and Janet Elizabeth BOOTH. Nickie migrated with Deborah Jayne CREACALL 1990 in Hyde, Cheshire, England. At 24 years of age Nickie became the father of Brandon Anthony BURTON in Mississague, Ontario, Canada, Monday 19th October 1992.

Nick with Brandon as a one-year-old and Nick's dad looking on

Nickie also 1993 in Mississague, Onterio, Canada. At 25 years of age Nickie became the father of Richard David BURTON in Mississague, Ontario, Canada, Saturday 23rd October 1993. Nickie was separated from his wife, Deborah Jayne CREACALL in Mississague, Ontario, Canada, 1997. (See Nicholas David BURTON for the continuation of this line.)

Debbie at about 9 months old

1968c in Whitefield, Manchester, England.

Debbie with grandma Lily, 1969c

in Lancashire, England.

Steve and Debbie play in the sand 1969c

in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.

Debbie with Sunny

1982c in Dukinfield, Cheshire.

Debbie and Nick's going away "do" at Foo Foo's Palace, Manchester

Deborah traveled in Manchester, England, 1989. She migrated 1990. At 24 years of age Deborah became the mother of Brandon Anthony BURTON in Mississague, Ontario, Canada, Monday 19th October 1992.

Debbie with her first child Brandon

Deborah also 1993 in Mississague, Onterio, Canada. At 25 years of age Deborah became the mother of Richard David BURTON in Mississague, Ontario, Canada, Saturday 23rd October 1993. Deborah was separated from her husband, Nicholas David BURTON in Mississague, Ontario, Canada, 1997. Deborah traveled in Mississague, Ontario, Canada, October 1998. Main Occupation: Graphic Designer

Anthony Richard CREACALL and Elaine Ann ATKINSON had the following child:

+ 47 iii. Mark Alan CREACALL was born Wednesday 27th December 1972.

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