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I WAS amused at the article on people whose names fit their trade (Mail). I once prepared documents for a shop let to a Mr Orange selling fruit and vegetables. He lived in Mandarin Close.
CLIVE GLADSTONE, Cullercoats, North Tyneside.
MY GRANDFATHER William Plant was a gardener. His children were (Sweet) William, (King) Edward, Lily and my mother, Violet.
GORDON KINGHORN, Newcastle upon Tyne.
THE two gardeners at Cannon Hill Park were Mr Twigg and Mr Branch.
JAMES MASON, Birmingham.
THE landscape architect for Surrey County Council was Mrs Grew, with assistant Jane Plant.
BRIAN HORSEMAN, Teignmouth, Devon.
AS A librarian, I worked with a Miss Fortune.
JOHN TURNER, Hucclecote, Glos.
WHEN I was a student nurse, I looked after a lady called Mrs Box. I cheekily asked if her husband was a funeral director. He was!
SUSAN FENWICK, Newquay, Cornwall.
MY DAD’S dentist was Julius Payne and his house was called Toothacre.
PETER DAVIS, Penzance, Cornwall.
WHEN my 18-month-old son cut his lip, I took him to paediatrician Dr Stork.
PATRICIA B. LAMM, Biddenden, Kent.
MY BANK manager was called Peter Crook.
HEATHER SPINK, Heathfield, E. Sussex.
IN THE 1970s, I served with Kingsman Duty and Kingsman Service.
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