NextBack“I lived in Terry's hostel down the Holloway on the right hand side. It was specially for those who worked at Terry's. That was a lovely house. It was two storeys, there was a drive going into it and big trees round it. They have knocked it down now, it's such a shame. I shared a room with three others. In some rooms four girls were sharing and there was one large room with eight in.” 'You had breakfast and an evening meal and paid £I 25 a week. There was a hot plate and a tea urn so that you could make yourself a cup of tea whenever you wanted and there was a long washing line at the back in a big orchard. There were about five loos and we took it in turns to use the showers.”
“When you have a group of girls there is always one who is a bit awkward but the three of us in our room got on really well. There was one from Dublin, and another girl like me, from Limerick. We palled up and went out together.” ''We had to be in at ten o'clock. If you asked permission to go to a dance or something they might let you have an extra half hour but that was all.”
“We weren't supposed to go to pubs, no nice girl from Ireland ever went into a pub but we used to pop into the Queens Head for a lemonade and the girl from Dublin had a shandy. My brother came into the Queens one night and caught me sitting there. He said he was going to tell my mum. I would have to go home if I didn't behave myself.”
“In May 1948, I was sitting in the Queen's with my two friends and there was a group of boys at another table. One of them came over to me, showed me a photo and said 'How do you like my youngest?". “It turned out to be Terence Halford (my future husband) and the photo was of his youngest sister."
