Grace Russ (Daughter of Eva Baglin)

When Grace was young I asked her to watch the potatoes boil while I went out shopping. And do you know, when I came back, there she was watching them burning, the blessed thing. I asked her why she didn't turn them off and she said she was only told to watch them. Grand Pratt used to be like that, she was always burning things that used to annoy me, because if anybody ever came to the door they'd think it was me burning something.

She was a terror at school too. She wouldn't keep her gloves and hat on, no not her. We tried to make a lady out of her - but we couldn't. Then there was that time she lent her Recorder to Miss Hunt - we never had that back, and it cost £3, that was a lot of money for those days, about a week's wages.