ALICE WAITE (1898 - 1984)

Alice Waite 1914		 This is a portrait of Alice Waite, my grandmother. She was the only child of parents who married in their late thirties, and was obviously the apple of their eye - note the smart watch and shiny boots. Sometime after this photograph was taken, she was hit on the side of the face by a schoolteacher weilding a book - and ended up with the left side of her face permanently paralysed. The teacher had recently been widowed (it was during the first World War) and no action was taken. A different story today, I think. I remember her as a short, elderly lady of uncertain temperament who was hardly ever seen without her pinafore on. When her first husband, my grandfather died, she re-met and married a childhood sweetheart. She moved from Horwich in Lancashire to Cheriton, near Folkestone, where she died.
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