A Ventnor Childhood in WW2 by Marigold Harding – Part 1: Home Life

Marigold Harding was ten when WW2 broke out.  Her family lived at the foot of Nine Stone Steps, where her father, builder Tom Harding, ran the ‘Trinity Works’.  This is the first of three articles using her memories of a wartime childhood in Ventnor, and mentions home and school life during the war, and Vivian Yorke’s part in the rescue of a Wellington Bomber crew adrift off Ventnor .

Read PDF version of Part 1 here:  A Ventnor Childhood in WW2 by Marigold Harding Part 1: Home Life