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THE LIFE OF IAN DURY - The Early Years

Ian Robins Dury was born on Tuesday 12th May 1942 at his home, 43 Weald Rise, Harrow,

Middlesex, although he would later say he was born in Upminster. His mother was Margaret

CuthbertsonDury (nee Walker), known as Peggy and his father was William George Dury.

His mother worked as a health visitor and his father drove buses for London Transport.

Although he liked to portray a working class image and sang about his father's life

In the song "My Old Man", he would rarely mention that his mother was upper middle

class and the daughter of a Doctor.

Her family hailed from County Donegal in Ireland

where they had a 189 acre dairy farm.

Ian Dury - Wikipedia

During the war Ian and his mother moved to his

grandmother's house in Mevagissey in Cornwall. Ian's father trained as a chauffeur with

Rolls-Royce and at the end of the war the family moved to Les Avons, near Montreux

in Switzerland. In 1946, the family returned to England but his parents