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…
KATHLEEN’S MEMORIES:
Photo by Brenda Ward
Wartime - doodlebugs and sleeping under the bed…
