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Sunday best, aged 6 (1920)
Mary Church in Sunday best, aged 6 (1920)
In WAAF uniform
2013243 WAAF Mary Church
Wearing Jeremy's mortar board at his graduation (1986)
Wearing Jeremy's mortar board at his graduation聽 (1986)

Mary Church and Me

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In 1960 Susanne Hall was a busy mother who worked part-time, 聽but in the聽fortuntate position of being able to afford to employ a nanny. The聽nanny she found was Mary Church who聽turned out to be something of a聽Mary Poppins figure, except that she stayed on even after the children had grown up. She lived in聽her own cottage and聽remained the聽much-loved and indispensable linchpin of Hall family life.

Then in 1987, Mary Church told Susanne a long-kept secret that threw the importance of their friendship into sharp relief.聽 Susanne tells David Stafford how this revelation came about...

Mary Church - the story of a foundling
by Susanne Hall
from聽Groundnut Publishing
ISBN: 0 9527141 5 9



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