John Jones was born in the East End of London in 1936. His father was in the Merchant Navy and during the war, after German bombs had destroyed his house, John, his mother and his baby sister Iris moved to Derbyshire to live with a cousin. When Short Brothers in Rochester sent John's grandfather to the factory at Windermere, his mother decided to join him. The family moved in with their grandparents on Beck Island Road and were then allocated a house at 53 Broadfield Road, Calgarth Estate.

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