Family memories came flooding back when one Kenilworth pensioner read last week's Weekly News.
Kathleen Hurst, 78, of Whateley's Drive, was surprised to see two of her relatives pictured. The first, cousin Ivan Collett, played a Roundhead soldier in Kenilworth's 1939 pageant and the second, her Grandfather Henry Collett, was shown in Albion Street years earlier.
Mrs Hurst, a widow of 22 years, said: "I don't remember anything about my grandparents but I know they had 13 children. My father Ernest used to tell me all kinds of stories about them.
"I remember us all thinking cousin Ivor was a lovely lad. He was a Royal Marine and was killed not long after the pageant in Sicily, during the war."
Her father and his family lived in Henry Street but when he married he moved to Albion Street where Mrs Hurst grew up. She was still a schoolgirl when the pageant was staged and remembers little about it, although her late husband George used to talk of it often. 
Mrs Hurst has few pictures of her past - but found this one of her husband George with his siblings taken at a family reunion in November, 1953.
She said: "Brother Walter came to visit from Canada so we all got together for a party."
