Comment:
Jane Cropper, Holmfirth: This is also my story, as I am 'baby'
Jane. Thank you for helping Mum to make this, and preserve some of
our family's history too.
When the World is Free
by Joyce Middlemist
Tell
us about yourself:
Brought up in a Northumbrian pit village. Scholarship to Grammar
School in 1932 (Morpeth). Scholarship to Liverpool University 1940-50.
Married 1946. Brought up children 1951 – 1959. Left when widowed
1977. Now eighty-two-years old.
What’s
your story about?
How war and its aftermath kept young couples apart and sometimes
estranged them.
Why
did you choose to tell this particular story?
I did nothing heroic during the war but I think our story of a long
courtship was typical and it will strike a chord with many other
people.
