About Our Words: Olga's Daughter
Jean Frickel from Chester has personal reasons to be keenly interested in Marie Campbell's wonderful story about her mother, Olga, who travelled from Jamaica to seek a new life in England.
For details of Marie's book Olga's Daughter please click on www.olgasdaughter.wordpress.com
Jean writes:
My great aunt was the Matron of St Giles during the 30's and 40's.
My mother, Blodwyn Jones, trained there during the 30's leaving in 1932 and my Aunt, Nancy May Jones, trained there in the 40's. She told of the pilotless bombs that came over and having to dive under the tables when their engines cut out and they fell.
My Great Aunt, Matron Mary Emma Jones was very strict in her private life as well. I visited her in London in 1948,. She showed me around the city but I was so scared of her I remember little about it. If anyone in the family was being a bit officious we called it doing a 'Mary Emma'. Your Mother's love of nursing and the companionship she had was echoed by my own family's experiences.
A lovely tale. Great courage and resilience.
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