After the Blitz, Joan’s sister Sheila joined the WRNS. Joan went to work in Liverpool, at first for a bank in which most staff spoke Welsh. Later she went to work for Bibbys in Liverpool, and was still working there when the war ended.
The Pittmans had met the Boughey family – Horace and Phyl (Hannah), “over a stick of celery”, and Mum recalled visiting their house at 45 Penkett Road, Wallasey. There she met Horace’s son, Joseph Pemberton Jepson Boughey, riding a bicycle around the garden there. They were to meet again, and to become engaged in 1946, when JPJB had returned from wartime service in the RAF.
They married in August 1947, in English Martyrs, the local RC church, which was then only a small shed-like building, next to the site of the later church. They honeymooned in Barmouth, although they spent their first two nights in Wrexham and Montgomery.
Joan Boughey Recalled 