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Mum’s last wish
3:10pm Monday 7th July 2008
Brian Jeffries emails: "I am a 73-year-old now living in Australia. I left England in 1960.
"When I lived there, I lived with my parents in Fulham in London but every weekend we would go down to our caravan at Cuckmere Haven.
"When my parents retired, they bought a property at a place called Splash Point in Seaford.
"I am an only child and when my parents saw I was happy in Aussie land and was settled with a wife and family they sold up and came out here to be with me.
"Dad died 30 years ago but mum has just passed on and her last wish was for her and dad's ashes to be spread where they once lived, some in the garden and some on the beach where they loved to walk.
"The problem is, I never saw Splash Point or where their house was.
"I am clutching at straws but through your paper I wonder if some folk who knew them would also know where they lived and even might like to join me as I spread their ashes.
"As I understand it they were very popular at their local, which again I don't know the name of.
I do have a photograph of them down on the beach and one of them in the garden at the house.
"Their best friends' names were Len and Louise and I think their surname was Arabin. I have tried tracing them through directories but they do not come up, they might be ex-directory."
If you can help, please email Brian at J4@bigpond.com or write to him at 100a Oban Road, Ringwood North, Australia 3134.
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