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A few pics from my recent visit

I do remember Fathers' Day cards being introduced, perhaps in the 1970s or 1980s. My parents would have nothing to do with it: "It's just a commercial thing, not a proper religious festival like Mothering Sunday" was Mum's, and therefore the family's, official line. We did observe Mothers' Day, indeed woe betide us if we didn't.

Hi Athy. I have found some more intriguing info. - Apparently, European Catholics have been celebrating Father's Day since the middle ages, originally on St Joseph's Day 19th March. An annual day of Fatherhood, can be traced back to 1508, but it may possibly have started even earlier. Though our modern Father's Day idea is known to have started in America in the early 1900s, it was in 1966 Lyndon B Johnson declared that the 3rd Sunday in June would be known as Father's Day,. Then in 1972, Richard Nixon had it written in to the law. The UK had already taken up the idea. Apparently it started to gain popularity here after the 2nd World War, with the American influence, and by the late1960s it was well established. I do remember my Mum celebrating Father's Day when we went to my Grandad's, giving him his favourite Park Drive ciggi's and a bag of his favourite sweets, they were like large Fisherman's Friends. didn't half niff!