“It was quite successful, and all the young ladies, only young ladies, worked together in groups within the grounds.

They did not go outside, because of the anxiety of being abused and shouted at, et cetera, which is not even uncommon today.”

“You couldn’t just go out. “Where are you going? What are you doing?” It was a long time before we went out, because as I say, they never had anything to do with the outside world. And the village didn’t really know about the Manor. Yet I’ve [now] got so many friends in the village, and I go up every day and I always see them.”

“Interviewer: Did you get to decide what you wanted to eat?

Pauline: No. Parsnips everyday. Meatballs everyday… Breakfast, every morning, get up early, quarter past 7 to do breakfast… Couldn’t lie in, had to do breakfast.”

“There were some bedrooms downstairs and some upstairs. The ones that needed extra help were downstairs. When I first went to the Manor it was about 6 [to a room]... it was cut down to two or one on their own…
I prefer having company. But sometimes I like to be on my own.”

“I think that might have been Weymouth. It was very sandy on the beach.
I went on holiday a few times.”

“Every night, Brenda and I, would go into the coal house, tip the coal, lift up the AGA, and tip the coal in. It was horrid, dangerous”