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‘ Along with the coronation medals ?’ he asked with a grin. From there we would walk to the grand house at Godmersham Park.’ As an engagement present Jimmy had given Sara a copy of Pride and Prejudice, and this she still treasured keeping it in a special biscuit tin where she kept all her memories. Every summer, w e would take the train to Canterbury and cross to the other station to take the train to Chilham. ‘Jane Austin’s brother,’ she said, ‘Changed his surname in order to inherit Godmersham Park, near Chilham. Jane left the couple to join her school friends and watching her scampering off, Sara told Ed that Jimmy had chosen her name after the author Jane Austin (1775-1817).

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As more men left, the women had to work shifts and do all sorts of heavy manual jobs adding that this coming evening she would be, ‘ going on at 6 o’clock and spending most of the night coal heaving and shovelling to make electricity for the trams tomorrow morning!’ Laughing at the same time as flexing her arms to show the muscles. After the outbreak of War, when male workers had left for the Front, she was asked to go back and at first just worked in the offices.

Ed asked her about her job and Sara told him that since leaving school she had worked in the offices until she was pregnant with Jane. Sara then told the American that she wanted to stay in Church Street as it was close to St James’ school and just across Pencester Gardens to where she worked at the electricity station. With a broad grin adding that ‘the whole school was given a day off in celebration! ’ĭuring the War women, like Sara, worked as a coalheaver at power stations. ‘ He was handsome, kind and very clever, ’ she said, proudly proclaiming that he won a scholarship to the County School that was then part of the Technical College in Ladywell. ’ She went on to say that Jimmy was in the top class when she was old enough to go to the school and with a wistful smile, said that all the girls were in love with Jimmy. Ed asked her how they met and she replied that they both had attended St James School adding, ‘ Where Jane goes. ‘It is really good but I don’t want to lend it as it was Jimmy’s…’ Her voice dropped and her face clouded over. In response to Ed’s query, if the book was the Bible, Sara threw her head back and laughed, ‘No’, she said ‘ It was The Coral Island by Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894), don’t you know it?’ Ed shook his head and Sara told him that it was about three boys marooned on a South Sea island when the ship they were on was wrecked. Sara proudly proclaimed that she still had both Jimmy’s and her medal and that Jimmy had been given a book, which she still had. St James School in the mid 19th century when it was a National School 19th cent. Entertainment and tea was provided by the Corporation and as the children left the meadow each received a medal celebrating the Coronation, with a few selected children being given a book. ’ She then went on to describe the event, saying that the children were accompanied by their teachers, some Mums, the Mayor – Alderman Martyn Mowll and the Corporation.

After singing ‘God save the King, ’ we marched up Castle Hill to the Meadow. ‘Nine thousand children’, emphasising her statement by opening her arms wide, ‘ and we had assembled in Pencester Road. Sara was wearing a plain black hat, dark worn woollen coat and dress, black stockings and shoes.ĭescribing the day back in 1902, when the town celebrated King Edward VII’s (1841-1910) Coronation, Sara said that there were. Tucked underneath one of the loops was the side folding overseas cap. Walking beside them was Ed, the cadet who had been the Master of Ceremonies that day and now as lieutenant was wearing the US Army olive uniform with a silver bar on the shoulder loops of the jacket. Jane, the little girl who had impressed the Americans on Thanksgiving Day, was holding her mother Sara’s hand. There they had been entertained to New Years Day lunch in the Officers’ Mess and as the weather was clear, the Dovorians insisted on showing the Americans where Louis Blériot had landed on Northfall Meadow after the first flight across the Channel, nearly ten years before. On a freezing cold New Years Day in 1918, the children with their mothers, mostly widows, were walking towards Northfall Meadow escorted by female American nurses from Swingate and officers and cadets. Continued from Swingate Part IIB – World War I Front Line Aerodromeġ918 January – March – Dover and will this war ever end?