Family life

Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot My grandad, the river swimmerTwo cheeky fellows fight over a towel. The one on the right is my grandad, Frank Edwards. He and his friend Jack swam every day in the river Cam, right through winter, for many years.Frank was a barber and my grandma Joan was a hairdresser, who moved from London to Rugby and then eloped with Frank and settled in Cambridge. They worked together in their own shop on Mill Road, and it was above it that my mother ...

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