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…
Page 15 Two years later I made my entrance into the world, followed by Joe, 18 months later. I think my father adored me from the moment I was born and he was certainly my beloved Daddy. My first memories are of being pushed in a large pedigree pram in…
Page 1 Page 1 Anne Apsley Baskerville Mum’s Diaries Book 1 Page 2 Page 2 Memories … Song:- Barbara Streisand “Memories-like the corners of my mind misty water coloured memories all the way we were scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to one another For…
Now those of you that know of the story will understand it when I say, “Tom is the only bloke that I know that can put his big toe in his ear”. Impossible!! I know … I hear you. Well look, if you lost your thumb in a work accident,…