The newly-wedded couple moved to a house in two flats, in Sandiways Road, Wallasey Village, and JPJB went to work for his father’s estate agency business, which had been named “H J Boughey & Son” in 1944, although JPJB was not a full partner until the later 1950s.
JPJB became involved in Wallasey Round Table, and Joan attended a meeting to establish Wallasey Ladies Circle in 1949. This was merely to make up the numbers, but she left the meeting as secretary.
The new couple had hoped to have several children, and had their first child, a daughter, in 1952. Not long after they moved to a much larger property in Stanley Avenue, Wallasey Village. Although this was much-loved by his children, JPJB regarded this as merely a convenient base. They occupied the ground floor, and there were tenants on the first and second floors. The plan was that, as the family expanded, and tenants moved out, the upper floors would be vacated. The property would prove to be too much for Joan to handle. Her second pregnancy, yielding a second daughter in 1954, was very difficult, and she was ill for a time thereafter.
There was sadness during this period. Joan’s father John became ill over a long period, and eventually died in 1953. JPJB’s grandfather Joseph, whom Joan much admired, also died, much more suddenly, later in 1953.
Joan Boughey Recalled 