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Lily Lee, who now lives in Western Australia, was born Lily Smith at Harrow in England in 1940, not long after the beginning of World War II.
She lived in turn at both 130 and 132 Malvern Avenue, South Harrow and went to school at Eastcote Lane, where she knew Anne McKay, James, David & Sylvia Bucknell, and Janet Coe, as well as many others she went to primary school with.
I remember starting school at Eastcote Lane, and recall particularly the snow, the sludge and the extreme cold! (chuckle) Also comes to mind the air raid sirens...and the running to shelters.
More memories....umm school teachers! I remember Miss Page...she was my very first teacher...pulled out of retirement for the war years, not very patient with us 'littlies', other teachers have disappeared down the memory path!
Fond memories surface of the friendship I had with my classmates and neighbourhood children. Lovely memories survive of Handscombe Bakery...yum!! Custard tarts.
Neighbours on one side of our house were the Bucknells...David and Sylvia were the children...David was my age and we spent quite a few days digging for treasure...under our adjoining fence ! to the consternation of our respective mothers. David's dad was in the Air Force...
There were the Backhouses...further along Malvern Ave; Mr & Mrs Challen around the corner...I don't remember too many other neighbours. I do remember Handscombe's Bakery!
Then my parents decided that Australia would give a better life to their two children ..... I was devastated to leave my friends and relatives! When you are only eight this is quite an upheaval.
We came to the 'bush', and for two years lived 40 miles from the nearest town, on a sheep station, which meant correspondence lessons for me! No companions, but I survived and grew up, and here I am all these years later.
Lily Lee, Rockingham, Western Australia, 2002
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