Margaret records the family accounts of her birth at St Mary’s Hospital and the different details each relative remembered.
Life entries from the 1960s
Entries from the 1960s
A family story about three-year-old Peter asking whether his new baby sister would be staying.
Margaret recalls the rented Copnor house, sharing a bedroom with Peter and the routines of early family life.
Margaret remembers moving from Copnor to a three-bedroom council house in Portchester before starting junior school.
Margaret meets Denise, the confident girl from two doors down who becomes her first friend in Portchester.
Margaret starts at Castle Lane Junior School and relies on Denise while she learns the unfamiliar routines.