VIEW FROM THE STEPS

This was the view from the steps where I sat in my earliest memory (first extra). Dad's first RAF posting was Moreton-in-Marsh and he was too junior to qualify for a quarter. Accommodation was hard to come by and all he and Mum could find was a Nissen hut behind the Crown Inn in nearby Blockley in the Cotswolds, on condition that they cleared out and cleaned it up first. Dad took these photos in the winter of either 1953 when I would have been two, or in the following winter by which time I was a Big Sister. I can remember going to a kindergarten across the road from where I'm standing in front of the pub in the second extra, and going to stay with another little girl's family while Mum went into hospital, and I can definitely remember Sister R's arrival two months before my third birthday, so I reckon these fit today's Mono Monday theme of "Memory", and thanks to 60plus for hosting.

I don't remember, but was told by my parents, that I named my bear Yvonne after the daughter of the pub landlord.

Blockley is where a lot of the Father Brown programmes are filmed and you can just see the church tower in the background of the second extra.

Also... I hadn't taken any photos today so was glad to find some old B&Ws to fit the theme.