The Ambridge Socialist
3rd March
Jennifer Aldridge: tribute to a young rebel with a cause
The Ambridge Socialist has paid tribute to Jennifer Aldridge whose funeral takes place today.
Latterly Jennifer was a key member of the Ambridge ruling class, as the partner of Brian Aldridge. Here she was known for her cooking and for her remarkable tolerance of the philandering of her husband.
In her younger years though she was a rebel. Her son Adam was born out of wedlock, the father farm worker Paddy Redmond. This was the 1960s and an young unmarried woman having a child in conservative Ambridge was a big two fingers up at convention.
Jennifer didn’t give in but brought Adam up later with Brian as stepfather.
It has also been revealed that in her younger years she had a poster of Che Guevara on her bedroom wall. No doubt there was a certain sexual appeal but the key point was that Guevara was, until murdered by Bolivian soldiers, a key figure in peasant revolutions. What might have been in Ambridge if Jennifer had not met Brian
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