Grangemouth

My father Charles Randalls was born to Margaret and Charles Randalls on 18 April 1917 and grew up in Grangemouth. His father Charles worked in the soap works and his grandfather , also Charles, was a pilot on the canal. Charles went to Edinburgh Universty at 16 at was in WW11 serving in France,Italy and Ireland. He was a psychologist for the "War Office Selection Board". He had diptheria after uni and while he was an Inspector with National Insurance (before the war) and went to Camelin hospital where he met my mother Betty Scott who nursed him back to health. he had a very successful career in DHSS ending in Newcastle as Head of Uk Pensions with 1400 staff. He talked of Spring Heel Jake in the Close. He swam a lot and played football. I think he lived in Lumley Street. He had a brother called Matthew (now deceased ) and a sister called Pat who still lives in Grangemouth. He had two daughters and he sadly died in 1984 well before his time.....a truly great man.