Edward "Ted" Farrell was the wartime sweetheart of Betty Turpin and the father of Gordon Clegg. Ted and Betty were briefly in a relationship after World War II but lost contact when Ted boarded a train to Portsmouth but didn't return due to the death of an uncle and the offer of a job. Unaware that Betty had fallen pregnant with Gordon, who was born in 1950. Ted would go on to get married himself and have a daughter, and later granddaughters.