April Fabb - missing since 1969
Will you of your charity remember in your prayers
APRIL FABB
A child who disappeared
From this parish
In April 1969
Of whom nothing
Has since been heard
For those of us of a certain age and living in Norfolk, the disappearance of April Fabb, the girl who was seen to go down one end of a closed lane on her bicycle and never came out again, seemed to be one of those defining moments.
As a child it may be that too many things got linked together. Up until then, long cycle rides in the country, even from Norwich to the coast, were a simple pleasure. I would be just as likely to go alone. Suddenly you became conscious of parents wanting to know where you were going, when would you be back, who were you going with and have you got some money to make a call from a public phone box if you get scared or lost
And coming from a small cul-de-sac on a council estate, we seemed to go from only our family having a car to most household having a car. And mums were starting to learn to drive and soon kids were going everywhere in the back seat. Mass bike rides of +20 kids became a thing of the past
Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, I can see that it was a boom time, families had more disposable wealth, cars were cheaper, and the whole country was going through something of a cultural change as we went into the 1970’s.
We had our first colour TV in 1970 in time for the Mexico World Cup. In 1966 we’d had a front room crammed with people watching the World Cup final on what we’d think of now as a laughably small screen, by 1970 every house in the street had a goggle box.
The new cars meant there was less room to play outside on the street, so you spent more time indoors.
Plus the little gang of us from that cul-de-sac were getting older and I was living in a pre-teenage dream world that wanted this lifestyle to go for ever. But at the time I blamed April and others like her who disappeared at this time, to my undying shame.
It was only when I became a parent myself that the enormity of losing a child in these circumstances began to hit home.
RIP April, wherever you are.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_April_Fabb
www.norfolk.police.uk/newsandevents/unsolvedcases/missing...
Her death has been linked to a serial killer, Robert Black, but never conclusively proven.
www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/black/recri...
However it also fits the pattern of another alledged serial killer, Peter Tobin.
www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/did_peter_tobin_kill_in_norfol...
What a sad world we live in at times that such individuals can be missed and not receive the help they needed to prevent such future tragedies.
April Fabb - missing since 1969
Will you of your charity remember in your prayers
APRIL FABB
A child who disappeared
From this parish
In April 1969
Of whom nothing
Has since been heard
For those of us of a certain age and living in Norfolk, the disappearance of April Fabb, the girl who was seen to go down one end of a closed lane on her bicycle and never came out again, seemed to be one of those defining moments.
As a child it may be that too many things got linked together. Up until then, long cycle rides in the country, even from Norwich to the coast, were a simple pleasure. I would be just as likely to go alone. Suddenly you became conscious of parents wanting to know where you were going, when would you be back, who were you going with and have you got some money to make a call from a public phone box if you get scared or lost
And coming from a small cul-de-sac on a council estate, we seemed to go from only our family having a car to most household having a car. And mums were starting to learn to drive and soon kids were going everywhere in the back seat. Mass bike rides of +20 kids became a thing of the past
Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, I can see that it was a boom time, families had more disposable wealth, cars were cheaper, and the whole country was going through something of a cultural change as we went into the 1970’s.
We had our first colour TV in 1970 in time for the Mexico World Cup. In 1966 we’d had a front room crammed with people watching the World Cup final on what we’d think of now as a laughably small screen, by 1970 every house in the street had a goggle box.
The new cars meant there was less room to play outside on the street, so you spent more time indoors.
Plus the little gang of us from that cul-de-sac were getting older and I was living in a pre-teenage dream world that wanted this lifestyle to go for ever. But at the time I blamed April and others like her who disappeared at this time, to my undying shame.
It was only when I became a parent myself that the enormity of losing a child in these circumstances began to hit home.
RIP April, wherever you are.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_April_Fabb
www.norfolk.police.uk/newsandevents/unsolvedcases/missing...
Her death has been linked to a serial killer, Robert Black, but never conclusively proven.
www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/black/recri...
However it also fits the pattern of another alledged serial killer, Peter Tobin.
www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/did_peter_tobin_kill_in_norfol...
What a sad world we live in at times that such individuals can be missed and not receive the help they needed to prevent such future tragedies.