Mama’s Diary Chapter 1.8 – Turkey Court under German planes

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…

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Mama’s Diary Chapter 1.6 – My Ballet

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…

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Mama’s Diary Chapter 1.5 – My Early Schooling

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…

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