‘ MY GRANDFATHER CO INSTALLED AN ORGAN IN CHINA UNDER GUNFIRE'

There were no wedding photographs or pictures of Dad in the house

Gunfire had broken out around Holy Trinity Cathedral in Shanghai. It was 1925, and oppressed workers had risen up to shake an angry fist at the Chinese establishment. Two British craftsmen inside the cathedral kept their heads down and carried on working, despite the grave danger.

The men dodging the bullets were very close relatives of Pam Corps, who knew almost nothing of this drama until she began researching her tree. Why was such an intriguing story not spoken of around the kitchen table? As is so often the case, a family schism was to blame.

“My father Austin Jones deserted my mother when I was a baby, and didn’t have anything more to do with us,” explains Pam, who lives in Northenden, Manchester. “I was born in 1944, and it