My blog relates to the discovery of my mother’s past and her Jamaican family. The story of a remarkable woman who made a choice, which caused her to lose contact with her beloved family in Jamaica, until 50 years later when her past caught up her.
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Olga’s Diary (Continued)
Dear Diary
War: Moores and I were in Oxford Street, when the air raid siren went, shopping for a new dress for her date that night with an army officer. We’d just reached John Lewis when it sounded and...
<—Sydney Comes to London – 1939 Olga, Nursing & Declaration of War —>
(Olga’s Diary Continued)
Dear Diary
St Giles Hospital: I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. Not too long ago I was...
<—-Aunt Martha, Paddington Olga – A Student Nurse –>
When I asked my mother (Olga) how safe she felt in London during the first part of 1939, she said she wasn’t worried because people felt that war with...
<—A Change of Plan for Olga Sydney Comes to London 1939 —>
My Great Aunt Martha was the oldest and not at all like her sisters, Becky and Lucy, either in temperament or looks. She was a short, stout woman with a...
<—London 1939 Aunt Martha, Chilworth Street, Paddington—>
Even after all these years I still struggle to understand how my grandmother, Becky, thought it was safe to send my mother, Olga, to London in April 1939. The ...
