Margaret records the family accounts of her birth at St Mary’s Hospital and the different details each relative remembered.
Margaret Helen Carter
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The memoir ofMargaret Helen CarterA MemoirExplore the timelineBorn14 September 1962 · St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, Hampshire, EnglandPartnerAlan Robert Carter, born 3 June 1960 in Portsmouth. Margaret met him at a social evening at Fareham…Working LifeJunior clerk and later accounts assistant at Wessex Marine Supplies in Fareham, 1979–1986; part-time clerical assistant and later…PlacesPortsmouth, Portchester, Fareham, Havant and Emsworth in Hampshire; Hayling Island, the Isle of Wight, the New Forest and…
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Margaret records the family accounts of her birth at St Mary’s Hospital and the different details each relative remembered.On this day
On this day: 2 September
Margaret becomes Eastbrook’s school secretary and takes responsibility for the records, money and correspondence that keep the office running.
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Margaret records the family accounts of her birth at St Mary’s Hospital and the different details each relative remembered.A family story about three-year-old Peter asking whether his new baby sister would be staying.Margaret recalls the rented Copnor house, sharing a bedroom with Peter and the routines of early family life.Margaret remembers moving from Copnor to a three-bedroom council house in Portchester before starting junior school.Margaret meets Denise, the confident girl from two doors down who becomes her first friend in Portchester.Margaret starts at Castle Lane Junior School and relies on Denise while she learns the unfamiliar routines.