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A PERSONAL NOTE FROM GEOFFREY ALBERT NORTH
During the 1940's my mother, Olive, went out to work part time to
supplement the family income and I was left with Susan Mabel North who
was my Great Aunt. We lived in Norbury a northern suburb of Croydon. Bob, my
brother, was (and still is!) nine years older than me and he went to
Whitgift School in south Croydon. Coincidentally Bob, Roger and
Rodney were all at Whitgift at the same time though in different
years. Perhaps because Bob and I have come through the maternal line
and our surname was Chitty it was not obvious that Roger and Rodney
North were related to us.
For a while during the Second World War my brother Bob and I were
evacuated to Lewes to live with our great uncle Sidney Vincent North
and two of his two daughters, Betty and Peggy. He lived at Ousedale
House which is on the A275 opposite the Chalk Pit pub. What a place to
be evacuated to - just near where the Germans may probably have
landed.
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