“Brian is my dad’s cousin. He was married to Kate Pierson in the early 70’s and was a busker when I knew him (I was only a child at the time) but my dad said he also worked on the railway as a signalman. He was a very interesting person. I used to see him quite a lot as a child when my dads Auntie was still alive. Kate used to take my dads Auntie out for a meal whenever she visited Manchester and picked her up in a limo.”