My Great Grandad joined the army at 14 and was a drummer boy in the Boer War. He went on to own a freehouse in the Elephant and Castle and he had a scrap iron business too.

My Grandad was a coalman and left the running of the family scrap iron business to his mate, Charlie Richardson

My dad grew up around the Camberwell area and didn't want anything to do with the "scrap iron" business so he started a business with his schoolboy friend Frank Fraser [Junior]. It didn't last long.

He got a job as a mechanic for Stirling Moss in the late 60s/early 70s and stayed in the motor trade ever since.

My Great Uncle had a town farm out Orpington way. He had loads of pigs/dogs/cats/chickens but also had a Russian Bear and a Water Buffalo . The bear got loose once and it made the papers. We have the newspaper cutting as my Dads Cousin caught it after a woman saw it in her garden, he was asked if the woman was scared and he said "No, she just thought it was a bloke in a big fur coat"