Age 14 years
Precious Memories
Age 90 years
I would like to dedicate this book to my parents,
Daniel and Helen Mary Robertson;
to all my family, past and present;
and to my husband, Vic, who shared most of these precious memories with me.
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An autobiography by Evelyn Gardner
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Evelyn Gardner
Born November 1, 1916 in Newcastle, England
3923 Sierks Way
Malibu CA 90265
(310) 456-2740
Copyright © 2010 by Evelyn Gardner. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of
America. Except as permitted under Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may
be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means or stored in a database or retrieval
system without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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I came from a poor family and lived in a poor neighborhood. My father, a soldier having
just returned from the Great War, now called World War I, rented a room in Gluehouse
Lane from a woman who was as poor as we were. This is the room where I was born. While
my father was in Paris, he wrote a letter to my mother, which I still have today. Of course,
this was around 1917, before he came back home from doing his military service in World
War I. This is the letter:
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My parents eventually were able to move into a two-bedroom, upstairs flat on Railway
Street. We had nice neighbours, Mr. and Mrs. Ewan, who lived next door to us, and both of
our families shared a landing, which