Uncle Tom

A Memory of New Milton.

My younger twin brother Roger seems to have memories of his "Uncle Tom" of which I am unaware. My "Uncle Tom" was a Hants and Dorset bus conductor/driver. After Gore Road Elementary School finished for the day and my mother to be rid of squabbling kids in her hairdressing business office, would give us three-pence each to go home on the bus, and told us to make sure "Tom" put us off the bus at our stop. I remember Roger being so assigned on one occasion by himself, and upon disembarking, ran across the road from behind the bus and was hit by a passing car - he obviously survived.

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