Page 44 Page 44 At Holyhead, I was billeted with the Hainden’s – a 30th ish – couple with no children who lived in modern house in Seabourne Road, called “Khandalla” Page 45 Page 45 By 26th January we had the station operational and my first real association with a…
Page 41 Page 41 The Airforce 1941-1945 My number was 2026333 and I joined up on November 11th 1941. I was sent to Bridgnorth in Western England and received probationary training there. I was in Hut 3 Squad 3. Pam did not come with me. She was on another draft…
Page 36 Page 36 The War 1939-1945 For me, as for countless thousands and thousands of folk throughout the world these years dramatically changed our lifestyles. We hardly knew what was happening and yet deep down we knew nothing would ever be the same again. Joe stayed on at Countess…
Page 35 Page 35 Then a letter came from A.H.S. Anne and Jo to catch a special train from London to Exeter in Devon where the school was being evacuated. We all had our gas masks and off we went without a care in the world. The School had leased…
Page 14 About 1922 Connie had her first child. She was seven months pregnant and had engaged a midwife to wait with her. The woman was large and pushy and she made Mummy walk a lot for hours at a time and generally do heavy exercise. The result was she…
Thus we come to 1919 – the war is over – Charles Brooke Wright is at Turkey court; he is a bachelor of 44 or so Page 12 and eligible! My mother Constance from a sheltered country background is about 25 and is visiting with her friends Mrs Dowling and…
Page 21 Jo and I went to Ashford when I was 13 and she was 12. We were day girls for two years travelling back wards and forwards by train from Maidstone to Ashford. There was a little group of us Sheila McCabe, Bridget, and Pat Moore. In our final…
The planes now came overhead like Page 32 Page 32 buzzing flies in a swarm. Manston Airfield was close to Turkey and we saw plenty of dogfights between the planes. As soon as the siren went we had to go to our air raid shelter. We had an underground passage(all…
Page 19 Page 19 During this time in my life I was studying Ballet quite seriously. I did all the Ballet grades for MRAD with honours eventually entered for MRAD (Elementary and Intermediate). I was examined at the Royal Ballet company in London by Adeline Genée, Madame Karsavina, Felix Emery…
Page 17 When I was five my parents enrolled me at St Christopher’s Primary School run by two spinster school teachers. At the same time I commenced dancing lessons following the MRAD syllabus. The school was white stucco exterior and had green painted decorative wood inserts(like a Tudor house) and…