Bailey-Taynton family's war

Yvonne Bailey-Taynton, the contributor's mother, was in the Land Army. Her father, Charles Bailey-Taynton, was in Egypt during World War 2 but never spoke about his experiences. Patricia was born in 1941 and was evacuated to Oldham and Wales because the family home in Lambeth was bombed. Her Aunty Joan went to Wales to work in a munitions factory. Patricia didn't see her father until she was three years old.

Patricia's father, Charles, was a docker and had seen spiders in the banana cargoes. At the end of the war, Patricia remembered seeing tangerines wrapped in tissue paper, which they used as toilet paper. Patricia's husband, Terence Heath, also lived in Lambeth during the war and remembers chickens, pigs, and rabbits being kept there.