When My Father Claimed to Be the 'Remote-Controlled Arsonist'

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THE Thomas family of Acklam on holiday at Seahouses, Northumberland, around August 1954.

Left to right: Colin, father Ken, baby Brian, mother Doreen and Greta. Brian, who now lives at Edgbaston, Birmingham, says Ken, who died last year, worked for ICI at Billingham and Wilton from 1943 until his retirement in 1975. Doreen, who died in 1997, is still well remembered on Teesside as the author of Strike a Light, a book about John Walker, the inventor of the friction match.

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When My Father Claimed to Be the 'Remote-Controlled Arsonist'

Brian wonders if anyone remembers the blaze at Stockton Corporation Quay Warehouse in November, 1954. We would also like to know, so please write to Remem...

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