family meeting

In 1947 I went to Warwick from my parent's home in Worthing to apply for a course in Birmingham. There were a number of applicants. Luckily I was accepted and with another successful applicant we agreed to share digs. She had come from Spalding. Later in the year she rang to say she and her parents were staying in Eastbourne and could she and her mother come over to Worthing to meet up again. We chatted for a while then as conversation flagged I suggested they went down the garden to meet my father. Then my father asked my new friend's mother if she knew Birmingham at all.The reply was 'no' but she had, many years ago, been to a party in Tamworth for a Lizzie -------, to which my father said well my wife's name is Edith -------. When my mother came home it traspired that my two of my aunts had been to the boarding school owned by my new friend's grand mother. The two families had known each other all those years ago..