It has taken me a couple of days to get through my Nan's life story as it has taken some decoding. Some of the story touches on family issues that are best not to be spoken about as it could cause serious family arguments and upsets, because of this my Nan decided when writing her book she would change everyones name and the names of places the story takes place. This works fine in the interest of keeping the family happy but has made my life particularly difficult as I have had to go through this book with a tooth comb and then try and piece the story back together with real names and places.
However its done now and there are lots of points that I have pulled out that could be very interesting, here is a break down of the sections I will be using and the questions I will be asking in the interview about each section.
10 days old
Explain about being given to Mrs Bowden and how your father didn't know you were there
Why did your mother do this?
Split up
Explain how your father found out about Mrs Bowden and how he reacted
Where did your mother go after the break up? Did she keep the house?
Please tell us the quote on the divorce papers
Age 3
What is St. Annes?
Talk about being put into St. Annes, how did you feel?
Why were you put there?
Moving to the "big ward"
How old were you when you moved to the big ward
Talk about moving from the baby ward where you were happy
How did the big ward change when christmas came?
Playing going home
How old were you when you played this?
What is "going home"?
Dinner in St. Annes
What was dinner like in St. Annes?
What happened when you didn't eat your dinner or tried to give it away?
Tell the story about you being given a laxative because you refused your dinner
Start of the bombing
What was the start of the bombings like? Were you scared?
Explain why the robin sitting on the sacred heart was significant
Evacuation
Talk about the damage the bombs had done to the home
Where were you evacuated to?
Were you excited or nervous to be evacuated?
Going to stay with mother and new husband
Explain the meeting between you and your mothers new husband
Did you get on with your mother at the time you stayed with her?
Did you like her new husband?
Punished for ruining shoes
Explain how you were always ruining your shoes and having to get them repaired
What happened when you ruined your favourite red shoes?
How did sister act after the incident?
End of the war
How old were you then?
Were you pleased to be back in Brighton?
Did the home look different?
Sneaking into the cinema
Why did you sneak into the cinema, and who were you with?
Talk about being too scared to watch the films
why were you so scared to watch them?
Fake leaving
Talk about pretending to leave the home and then finding out you were actually leaving
How did it feel to know you were finally leaving St. Annes?
Did you feel ready to go?
End
Talk about going to live with your mother
Explain how it was the end of one section of your life, but opened doors for the next part.
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