Billie's Kid, A True Adoption Story by Steve Tucker
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Images of Billie

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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


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

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.

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

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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Section 5 - Remembrance

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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

'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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'Billie's Kid' on tour!

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Greece

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Greece

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Greece

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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

Billie’s and Teddy’s House in the UK
The Cedars, Church Lane, Weston Favell, Northants. All the pictures below were featured in Homes and Gardens magazine. Teddy Parsons came from a very successful family, his grandfather was the director and founder of Parsons Pies.
www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/retro-pork-pie-days-remembered-1-6564159
www.rushdenheritage.co.uk/Villages/commerce/parsons-irchester.html
www.rushdenheritage.co.uk/Villages/parsons-accident1908.html
www.rushdenheritage.co.uk/commerce/battersby.html


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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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