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To buy "The Cedars" Alf, and my father (who were both in the merchant navy) put their savings (together with granddad’s sale of Dunroamin) and purchased “The Cedars” to turn it into a guest house. It never was a nursing home. Yes, in times gone by, it had been an asylum, and was complete with two ghosts when we arrived there - and more have been added I expect! Emma died of cancer, and the following year, my mother Mabel also died of cancer. My grandfather, and uncles, departed back to London to live with friends, and my father and I stayed. Bill Tingey, my father, married again 2 years after my mother died, when I was 12 (1949). To my knowledge, granddad never managed a billiard hall. There was an excellent billiard hall in Whitchurch, but he never went there – he did like cards (playing crib) at the local pub, but he never rode a horse either, even though he had been in the cavalry, where he was supposed to be Lord Astor’s batman. Hope this has been of interest to Tigger’s mom. There is of course lots more, but I think this is what you really wanted to know.
Pat.