WESTBOURNE
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Life here was very different but fun. Our Nan's semi-
The final stage to Westbourne was to live with our mother's sister, Aunt Jude, who lived at Mary Vale at bottom of Monks Hill. Her husband, Uncle Len, was a gunner in the Royal Navy and was away for most of the war. The neighbours through the wall were Mr & Mrs Cressweller, whom we called uncle & aunt as was the polite custom to call adults. The stay with our aunt could have been due to compulsory billeting for evacuees. Better to have family members than strangers and be paid too.
Again it cannot be remembered how long we were there before my parents and my sister Mary took up temporary residence with the Southwell family who also lived at Commonside, just before the junction with River Street. Later we moved into a former workhouse now called The Grange.
Keith & grandfather James Turnbull
c1938