A page a day Sean Taft

 Sean was the youngest of four brothers

Sean, Jimmy, Declan and Stephen

They also had a big sister.

The mother was crippled. She was bent over almost at 90°.

This made getting around hard she used a Wheelchair.

When I knew them, the boys were teenagers. Declan and Stephen will have been a little older, maybe in the early 20s.

Sean was boisterous with his mother in her wheelchair and used to put her a push her around with enthusiasm, including to the point where she became scared. But it was never malicious, just high spirits from a teenage boy. 

The family were ‘Poor’ But in a very ordinary way in the UK. They were a large family with a single parent. They were Irish Catholics and they were big drinkers.

Sean Hart, the ambition of a working class boy, he thought, for something better than he currently had. But his. Vision was limited by what he knew.

He wanted something ambitious and glamorous in his future, but he’s only idea of what that was came from television and magazines.

As Such, he was essentially an Essex wide boy in a secondhand leather jacket bought from Oxfam.