Southampton
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Arthur John William Jackson (b:1927) and Patricia Jackson (b:1932 ne Green)
Isn’t it heart warming looking at photos of parents when they were young or when they were married! Following on with my series of blog posts on my family history and how it has influenced my writing, we have reached Mum and Dad. They were both brought up in the Southampton area and were married…
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Arthur Walter Jackson and Daisy Clara Colmer 1897-1981
My grandpa Arthur Jackson was born on 30th November 1896 on the island of Guernsey. Here he is on the 1901 Guernsey census at the age of four, just before the family moved to Wooston Southampton. The reason for the move was that work had literally dried up for his father, who was a painter…
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Who’d have thought it? ~ 60!
As I approach my 60th birthday, in between a dream of a lifetime trip to Venice and a quiet celebration with my husband, mum and dad up here in Scotland (God willing), I have been reflecting on my ‘path’ to this moment in time in my writing life. I have penned stories and poems since…
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Friends reflect on the changing roles of their loved ones in WW1
To commemorate the centenary of WW1 I am sharing with you some extracts of my second novel, Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home’ which takes the Newton family, who live in Woolston, Southampton, through The Great War. In this piece, Harriet, the matriarch of the series, has a surprise visitor, Edward, with whom she grew up on the…