KATHLEEN’S  MEMORIES:

Introducing Kathleen Deary

Early life in Hickling

I learned to shoot

Catching the rats

Distributing the coots

Wartime memories

Various early jobs

Schooldays

Leaving school at 14

Shops and “penny” bananas

Helping at home

Mum’s hard domestic work

Not much money for clothes…

Nightly prayers & Sunday School

Swimming in the Broad

The Duke of Edinburgh

Floods in 1938 and 1953

Courting and marriage

Working for General MacHardy

Sister  goes AWOL…

Photo by Brenda Ward

Working for General MacHardy - and exemption from call-up

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