22/07/2019
TIM PAGE of TCCC.UK - BIO on Family & Me and Crohns. Several Connections With MILK.
( There are some strange connections within this true story on me, time i revealed who some of my families are ).
i was born in september 1955 to my real mother, later Elizabeth S Cornwell and father Roger Cornwell, in St Jeffreys Road, then before the district change, Clapham, London, SW4, the street is neighbouring street to the real Albert Square. The police beat officer was actor Sir Roger Moore's father, i found this out years later from a London cabbie. Until i was about 3 yrs old, i lived on Richmond Terrace, overlooking the Thames, nextdoor to TV actor Gordon Jackson of Upstairs Downstairs and The Professionals fame, who i met several times. I moved to Royal Tunbridge Wells with my adoptive parents and to a first modern home in Royal Chase. At this time my adoptive father had come out of the Royal Navy as a Lt Commander RN & RNR, joining the Hornamons Tea House to become The Queen's tea taster and blender, holding the Royal Warrant., visting Buckingham Palace most weeks to make sure Her Majesty's tea was spot on. My adoptive father would go down to the London docks to purchase the teas for the tea house. He still had the smell of the sea in his veins, and found it hard to be land based. As you may know a lot of the staff at Buckhingham Palace are ex Royal Navy, partly i believe because of HRH Prince Philip.
Most of my adoptive and some of my real family were in the R Navy, and my real great grandfather was one of the first in the Fleet Airarm, catapolted off ship in his plane, bless him. My real grandfather was in the London police and CID, before being moved to Mi5 and then Mi6, he was a great friend of air ace Douglas Bader, annoying matron in their wheelchairs racing off to the pub near the hospital, they were both recovering in. Interestingly one of my grandfather's jobs was counting milk bottles on doorsteps from a sarason tank in N Ireland. Strangely all these years later, i should become involved with the milk bottle, through the bacteria from the cow's gut that can be found in milk, that causes crohns. Also his cover was a vet as he was fully trained for the Ministry of Agriculture, and strangely i live in an ex - Ministry of Agriculture cottage here in Wadhurst. One of my favourite places to go is Hastings, exactly where both my real mum and my adoptive mum were born, not far from each other, close to the seafront. My real grandad was like the character as Foyle in Foyles War in the job he did, and then into the secret services. Strangely again it turns out that my adoptive Page family ran and owned the White Rock Hastings Dairy on the seafront, near to White Rock Theatre and the pier, so the connection with milk runs in both the families. When i got married, now divorced, it turned out that both my adoptive father and my wife's dad were both born in Green Strreet, old Town, Eastbourne. PAGE is a very Sussex name, some worked on the railways.
There is a darker side to my family that i do not wish to disclose here, but it links to Italy and Turkey and the East End of London, and some of it's famous gangsters, some my real grandfather knew in his day through his connections in the bank, and to some linked to the Carry On films team of actors, some characters, we as a family know today as part of " The Family."
i have a very famous relative on my real family side, who was Jack Travers Cornwell VC of the Jutland sea battle in WW1, that was very sadly mortally wounded at 16 yrs old at his gun on HMS Chester. This is my real family that stretched from Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire to the East End of London.
Strangely, or i suppose not, as Adoption agencies placed babies with simular families, my adoptive family were all Royal Navy, serving on many ships, some well known, like HMS Hood, HMS Tiger, HMS Minotaur, my adoptive father was on HMS Discovery at 14 yrs old, the tall sail ship, and chief petty officer by 18 yrs old, as was then a training ship up to the Artic. My adoptive grandfather was a motor bike despatch rider and left the Army as a Major, serving in the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry, and became the financier and banker to the Churchill family, including Sir Winnie, but had other clients like US President Eisenhower, USSR Stalin, and other heads of State from around the World, and many celebrities like Charlie Chaplin, Syd James, which by the way ended up with my grandfather loaning the first £ million to Pinewood Studios for the famous Carry On Films, something the actors never forgot. Many of his other clients were Military, as the bank handled all their pay across the World, including Mi5 and Mi6 officers. One of his major times in the bank was when he handled the pay and finances of the 4 x Mi5 officers who defected to the KGB in the famous Perfumo Affair, some of the people involved lived near Wadhurst. On leaving the bank he became chairman of Central & District Property Company, based in London, but built developments around the World, here in the UK, it was Arndale Shopping Centres. My uncle's father was Governor of Hong Kong, my uncle being a director at the BBC and then chairman of IBA, and then set up Channel 4 with James ( Jimmy ) Gatward from near to me Mayfield. My other uncle was head at Rootes / Chrysler that was in Horseguards Parade in London, looking after the Rootes family attending Chequers with the Government, and in the Lodge with HRH Prince Philip. My adoptive parents were well known Antiques dealers, dealing to celebrities via Olympia Antique Fairs etc, my adoptive mum being great friends with the now late Laura Ashley, visiting her in N Wales with me, and lending her antiques for her interior design books, and she was great friends with the now BBC Antiques Roadshow Judith Miller, and Fairs organiser Caroline Penman. They really went from mainstream walnut furniture to the Country Look, where i came in as their interior designer, doing up their homes, in the Lapis Blue era, and Country Look. This got me into several well known magazines and books, recently into another book written nearby to me in Frant on a famous cloth Taylor, who did pictures out of his off cuts. My auntie was the secretary of The Royal Victoria League in London, that looked after women from the UK Colonial outposts around the World.
That is just a few of my close families, then things started to happen for me, when i joined Royal Mail as a postie, and came up with a great idea of posties carrying mobile phones in the 90's. This all happened from a BBC double murder reconstruction here in my village, by the way the camera man in my van at the time of filming, was a great friend of my uncle at the BBC, but using walkie talkies gave me the idea of using mobile phones with posties, neighbourhood watch groups, and most importantly the Community i delivered to, and was launched several days later with Cellnet. The press / media interest was really great across the Country, as i spread the phone schemes too. Many rural areas snapped it up straight away. There was eventually a downside as Royal Mail wanted to privatise and did not like the phone schemes attached, so i publically resigned out of principal, as they had given me the full go-ahead to start and run the project in the first place. Even the Queen became involved along with HRH Prince Charles, much to Royal Mail embarrassement. My press story was launched about this as i was delivering around Bewl Reservoir, and so i came up with the idea for the press release, to throw the phone into the lake, as the famous sword was thrown back to the lady of the lake, it captured how i felt. Before this all ended i worked with The Home Office, Sx Police and our MP of the time, Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith, ex Northern Ireland minister, as was Tunbridge Wells MP Sir Patrick Mayhew another N Ireland Minister a great friend to my adoptive family. All this lead me to helping develop the police PCSO, not frontline, and their duties within the Community, all changed today, as used as frontline troops due to the massive Government cuts.
Anyway, all this press / media coverage gave me great contacts for when i launched my crohns campaign, and this took me and my campaign to the House of Lords and many press write ups and tv and radio interviews. I set up websites and gathered 25000 people on one site, from across the World. 30 years later, a brand new dna vaccine, now in 2nd stage human trials, a brand new smart test, so we are nearly there against all the odds, and threats by Big Pharma, who do not want us to succeed, as they will loose £ billions, but that is tough as i care about human beings and animals, as those do around me. It has been jested and just one day a film will be made around this long rocky road against corrupt Government fools and Big Pharma, the Dairy Industry, and all the people that have helped me, from Lords, VIPs, Fleming family, Colville family, scientists, Government scientists and their families. The morals of some, the principals and ethics of some, are a disgrace to humanity and animals and all their suffering, all for greed, and not a care in the World, until one of their own gets crohns, then things change.
Yes, i could have walked away from all the Crohns issues, but very early on i made a promise to see this through, a promise to my Prof, and i knew not everyone would go down the route of Alternatives, which i had pioneered on my now ex wife, to buy time until the new vaccine was ready, but in what i was pioneering with 2 colleagues, Paul Taylor and Edgar Fleming of Sir Alexander Fleming's family, and in just 18 months, my now ex wife completely recovered from her severe Crohns, Ulcerated Colitis and Severe Osteoporosis, infront of NHS doctors and consultants, and the press and media who had been following the story, this postive result came as a shock, but studying our Prof's science enabled us to understand what was going wrong.
My now ex wife had nearly died all those years ago, bleeding out at 5 stone in weight on a hospital bed, our family went to hell and back with little to no support, surviving on one low wage, no real help, no food banks, and bills to pay, extra bills because of the illness, no help from DWP. i have spent years now talking to people across the World who suffer with Crohns or who have a relative or friend with Crohns, feeding positivity into them, for their futures with all the information i store in my head, as well as hard copy or in the pc. i give all my time free, advice to sufferers, advice on the Alternatives, and run my phoneline for crohns sufferers to get in touch. i get doctors phoning me for advice for their patients on what to do, as IBDs - Crohns etc is a mystery to most doctors. i am proud to say that my doctor who listened, gave a talk on Crohns / MAP to other interested doctors / consultants about the work of our Prof.
True Story - Written & Compiled by Tim Page- Cornwell.
