Wartime Life in a Chinese Laundry

[helen]

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Frank Wing Yow Soo

Frank moved to Gloucestershire with his parents in 1948, to open the first Chinese laundry in Cheltenham. Before that, the family spent the war years living in Birkenhead.

The story Frank remembers is that his father, who was born in Kwangtung, China, and came to Europe during the First World War, got on a ship to go to America when the war ended in 1918. But when he got off, it turned out to be Liverpool and that was how he came to stay in England. Here are Frank's war memories.

[petersoo]

My great grandfather did a similar thing as did my grandfather around 1930 except in Eccles, his hame was Soo Cho Sun and was from Sonn Tun in Tai Shan


Frank Wing Yow Soo

Frank moved to Gloucestershire with his parents in 1948, to open the first Chinese laundry in Cheltenham. Before that, the family spent the war years living in Birkenhead.

The story Frank remembers is that his father, who was born in Kwangtung, China, and came to Europe during the First World War, got on a ship to go to America when the war ended in 1918. But when he got off, it turned out to be Liverpool and that was how he came to stay in England. Here are Frank's war memories. [/quote]