Photo Gallery - Billie's Kid by Steve Tucker
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Billie on her wedding day in Egypt
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Billie in her modelling days
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Billie home from hospital with her
baby and in the garden of
Red Gables Mother and Baby Home
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Billie in her modelling days
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Billie as an RAF auxiliary nurse
in Egypt. She rose to the rank
of RAF Warrant Officer.
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Billie and Teddy on their wedding day.
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Billie as an RAF Warrant Officer
in Cairo, Egypt in 1945
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Billie in her modelling days
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Billie on her wedding day, Cairo, Egypt.
Billie had been looking after a relative of the Queen Mother in hospital
and, in return for her kindness, she was lent a Royal Bowes-Lyon veil
to wear on her wedding day. As shown in the picture.
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Billie and Teddy on their wedding day,
Cairo, Egypt
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Billie in her flat in Brighton.
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Picture of Billie’s flat, ground floor,
36 Stanford Road, Brighton.
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Billie as maid of honour at
Penny and Chris’s wedding, Brighton.
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Billie in her flat in Brighton
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Order of service at Billie’s funeral
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Order of service at Billie’s funeral
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Billie as a baby
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Billie as a baby
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Red Gables Mother and Baby Home, Crouch End, London
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Red Gables Mother and Baby Home,
Crouch End, London as it was in 1961
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Four protests were held to keep it open as the
local council wanted to develop it
commercially.
The good news is it they won and
to this day it is a pre school nursery.
Red Gables news item link
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Red Gables as it is today
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The baby ward
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Pictures of the author's blood father Geoff Boyce and jazz musician guitarist brother/
uncle Peter Boyce who played with the greats including the legendary Louis
Armstrong
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Geoff’s brother Peter Boyce
with his wife and 3 daughters.
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Peter Boyce at sea.
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Geoff in the Navy
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Geoff in Australia
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Geoff in the war fire service
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Geoff at Dee Why Beach, Australia
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This is a picture of Geoff’s daughter, Jennifer Susan Boyce.
Unfortunately she died at the age of 3 of Cystic Fibrosis.
She would have been my half sister.
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Copy of the album 'Let’s Go Square Dancing' by Jim Vickers-Willis. Peter played on this extremely popular Australian album.
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Peter played with the popular calypso musician, vocalist, arranger and bandleader Edmundo Ros OBE.
He played on many of his albums - a few are pictured below.
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Edmundo Ros album
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Edmundo Ros album
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Edmundo Ros album
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Billie's Kid's name was changed from Clive to Steve and was adopted in December 1961 by
superb parents, Dr. David Stone Tucker and Elizabeth Joy Tucker (nee Gilchrist).
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The ashes of Billie in her urn
with the panda. If you look closely
you can see Billie’s dowsing crystal
keeping her at peace in the author's house.
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A remembrance site local to the author
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'Billie's Kid' publicity material
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Printing the paper version of 'Billie's Kid'
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Meet the author of 'Billie's Kid', Steve Tucker.
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Kuala Lumpur
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Australia
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Bay of Plenty, North Island, NZ
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Australia
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North Devon
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Traquair Castle, Scotland
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The Welmar grand piano in the
state drawing room on the Royal
yacht Britannia, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Played by Cole Porter, George Gershwin
and Lady Diana.
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Appledore Book Festival
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Singapore
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Scottish Cross
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Greece
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Greece
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Billie's home
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The drawing room
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The lounge
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The lounge
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The master bedroom
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Billie's dressing room
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