Brian McLoughlin 23rd June 2004
I read the “Autobiography of Frank Proctor” some time ago and I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I would recommend this book to any of the older generation in Ushaw Moor.
Frank was a very strong character who went as a very young man with a number of friends to work on the farms in Canada. He suffered homesickness as one by one his friends returned to the Ushaw Moor area and he was left alone in a strange country thousands of miles away from his home.
He was a very strong Christian and it was his faith that carried him through these difficult times. He was, as a young man, very strongly influenced by Vicar John Welby who was the vicar at Saint Lukes CE Church on the Esh Winning road.
He married in Canada and shortly after joined the Regina Rifles and served with the Canadian Army in Europe throughout the entire Second World War. He managed to visit Ushaw Moor on leave a couple of times during the War.
This man was a tribute to his home village and the hard times he suffered as a young man. His faith in God had a major bearing on his life but this book is about Franks’ life and his family.
His early memories of Ushaw Moor are fascinating, his mother was stewardess at the “Bush” at the bottom of the village for a while.
Again I would recommend anyone of the older generation to read the book.
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I enjoyed reading my few words again. Frank Proctor was quite a man. One of the photographs in the book was taken from the bottom of Station Road and shows Station Road half built. This is not a religious book but the story of a homesick young man with very strong principles. I spent five years in the Army and I found the the Army side of Franks life very interesting. He went right through the War in Europe. He was a man I would have liked to have met. Brian Mc.
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