When her younger brother Harry died, she wore a black dress with a white collar, for about six months she thinks, she can remember going to a birthday party in it. She was also ill afterwards, affected by his death as they had been very close, and was sent to a separate small school. As a child the doctor said her spine was not straight and she had to lie uncomfortably on the kitchen table for so long each day. She had a bad cut on her forehead from falling when she was running with her hoop downhill.
She liked to play tennis and hockey, and enjoyed sport. She learnt to play tennis when the teachers needed an extra person to make up a 4 on the court at school, and she happened to have a racquet. Her sister-in-law Elsie gave her her bike, as she couldn’t learn to ride. She enjoyed the freedom the bike gave her, and often went on long bike rides by herself. She continued to ride the bike well into her sixties.
She stayed at home to help her mother until she married at 30. She was a housewife thereafter. Lived at “Carlton”, 38 Oaklands Rd, Bexleyheath. Then at “Timaru” Grinstead Lane Lancing Sussex.
She and Win used to visit Suffolk regularly, going by train and then cycling from the station. She can remember the excitement of going to the beach there in a waggonette. They stayed with their Aunt Tiny (Anne Maria Flegg) and other Flegg relations in Suffolk. She can just remember her Grandmother (Mary Flegg nee Ralph) coming down the stairs a very frail old lady.
When she was staying at her uncle Harry’s at Framlingham she can remember watching a Zeppelin coming over iwith flames coming out the bottom. (It landed near Theberton whetre a piece of it was kept in the church)
As a young woman she worked at Christmas in two Bexleyheath shops, the toy shop belonging to her brother Arthur’s friend Amy Voss’s father, and on a perfume counter.
2She, and her future husband both attended the Congregational Church, where they eventually married. They moved to 76, Oakdene Rd, Orpington, (later renumbered 82) which was newly built, and lived there all their married life, until Douglas died in 1992 when she moved up to Wakefield.
She lost her first baby in labour, then went on to have two daughters.