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Harold Taylor was one of 6 children brought up in Arundel and then Chichester, arriving into the world in the same year as Queen Elizabeth II. Harold had many jobs after leaving St. Richard's Catholic School, the Electric Company being one of them.
Whilst I was working on the Electric Company, the electrician and I were installing the electric current to a row of four cottages in Earnley village, which were owned by farmer Rusbridge. At the same time another pair of work mates were installing the electric to the village church. In doing so they broke through to an unknown crypt, and I think they were told to cover it in and forget about it. It probably remains so today.
There was a nasty accident whilst we were there. It was harvest time and the farm children were playing in the same field where they were harvesting. Unbeknown to the driver of one of the tractors, his own child was hiding in a bail of straw that he was going to pick up on the contraption attached to the front of his tractor. Fortunately, these wooden tines with metal spikes on the end rode up over the child's body, and rolled him along the ground before the tractor could be stopped.
The rush to call the ambulance attracted my mate George, who was in a first aid party in his area. He attended and it was considered that without his help the lad could have finished up with severe spinal injuries.
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