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Beryl Yull was born in 1938 at Berriman Road, Highbury. The family home was in Hornsey and she went to St. Mary's Church School there.
Our grandparents lived in Garnant, South Wales, and we spent some of our childhood days with them. We being myself Beryl and four sisters Avril, Yvonne, Marian, and Jennifer, and three brothers David, Dennis, and Jon.
We have all decided we would like to go back there, to where our grandparents lived, to see their house, see the school, I know I spent some time in, and the picture house where Mam spent a lot of her time watching cowboy films. Dad as far as I can remember never went to the pictures.
I really don't know why, but we always called them Mam and Dad, not Nan and Granddad, we still refer to them in this way.
I went back to Garnant in 1999, our Mother was dying, here in Lincolnshire, and something or some one was calling me back to Wales, I have never had such a feeling before. My husband agreed to drive me there he didn't question why, and I don't think I could have told him, Mum died two days after our return.
Since that time all my brothers and sisters say they would like to make that journey back to Garnant, the date chosen is the 22nd March 2002. There will be some tears spent because places change. I don't know what their memories are.
I know the school has gone but the main thing is Mam and Dad's house is still there, you can see the back garden where Dad used to grow flowers and vegetables; it's not as tidy now but it's still there.
Opposite their house was a field that we used to come down on sledges in the snow, it's all been changed now into a golf course, the field where we used to play is now overgrown, and the road is tarmaced.
When we were kids we could draw a hopscotch in the coal dust with a stick, I couldn't find the picture house on my last visit, but as we have more time on this coming visit I would like to see if it's still there, and also nearby I remember an ice-cream parlour where we sat and ate different dish's of ice-cream and juice.
I was very sad when I had to leave my grandparents and go back home to Hornsey in North London to be with my mum and dad and brothers and sisters. I am the second oldest I was ten when I left Wales.
Beryl Yull, Lincolnshire, 2002
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