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Suzanne rose · Wednesday at 6:36 AM

Jest said:
i lived on a farm in the country, born 1939 and to this day I do not remember anything about the war years. I had two older brothers and an older sister. Guess you could say I was an only child. A very lonely child who did not want for anything except company.

Suzanne rose · Wednesday at 6:37 AM

Still Ebby said:
l love the snow and will never forget trying to get up this step hill in the car to the maternity home on the edge of the moors at 5am after it had just snowed.We had to go another way round and Sonja was born half an hour later. l looked out the window and all the snow was weighing the trees down and thick snow everywhere beautiful sight to see.

How beautiful that would have been abd what an experience and a great story to tell

Still Ebby · Wednesday at 1:35 PM

Suzanne rose said:

How sad for you .Good you don't remember the war and being bombed l remember

Still Ebby · Wednesday at 2:34 PM

Suzanne rose said:
How beautiful that would have been abd what an experience and a great story to tell

lt was a great maternity home right at the top of a very steep hill next to a small paddling pool and moors. ln 1951 we had our first black person and matron Daphne Steele who was honored with a plaque after she finally left for becoming the first black matron.

Suzanne rose · Wednesday at 2:39 PM

Still Ebby said:
lt was a great maternity home right at the top of a very steep hill next to a small paddling pool and moors. ln 1951 we had our first black person and matron Daphne Steele who was honored with a plaque after she finally left for becoming the first black matron.

Where was that ?

Still Ebby · Wednesday at 2:52 PM

Suzanne rose said:
Where was that ?

A small village in West Yorkshire 17 miles from Leeds.

Lynnne · Wednesday at 4:05 PM

deni67 said:
There wasn't any crocodiles was there?

Hahaha no or sharks

Still Ebby · Wednesday at 8:08 PM

Still Ebby said:
'A small village in West Yorkshire 17 miles from Leeds.n I

We have a well known folk song about the moors in Ilkley called ''On Ilka Moor Baht't'' which is a bit silly really and hard for none locals to understand the lyrics
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Ennalim · 2025-05-16T09:58:05+1000

It was a sizzling hot Malaysian afternoon. My five sisters and i were heads down doodling just trying to keep out of the heat. Then we heard the jinggle of a bicycle bell from a distant. Our heads darted up..the ice-cream man! We stopped what we were doing, and started jumping up and down calling out to mum who was at the back of the house cleaning. As the sound of the bell got louder, we jumped even faster with pounding hearts and tears welling up.. 'Hurry up mum, the ice cream man is leaving!'

Dor jar · 2025-05-16T20:08:17+1000

As we were the onlyGREEK family in a small nsw country town it was not easy to make friends but when we did I would not trade these days for many that followed 1934

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