Beryl Arrowsmith, who has died aged 95, was one of my special “aunts” – not a blood relative but a close friend of my parents and very much part of the fabric of my family’s life as I was growing up in Sutton Coldfield.
Beryl was born in Bromley, Kent, daughter of Alice and Frederick Phillips. The family moved to the West Midlands when Frederick set up Prodorite, a firm of building contractors, where Beryl worked for her father on leaving school. Ken Arrowsmith joined the company on his discharge from the army after the second world war and he and Beryl married in 1948.
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