As this year marks 60 years since I first started attending Landseer Road Church I thought it was high time I paid tribute to the person who introduced me to the church and our ensuing 60 years of friendship.
In 1960 I was 11 years old, living in Gloucester Rd. and a quiet, lonely, only child still grieving for my Dad who had died 2 years before. Then into my life came new neighbours – a young couple, Millie and Peter with their baby daughter. Millie came from a country Methodist background and so started attending Landseer Rd. and invited me to go with her ( my Mum was very definitely NOT a church goer!)
Millie took me under her wing and I was included in her visits back out to the villages to visit her parents and sister and brother, wonderful happy times which instilled in me a love of the countryside. If I say that Millie was the daughter of Warrie & Bertha Page from Holbrook Chapel then older readers will certainly know that I had very good role models! In the fullness of time Sharon was born to join Bridget and the family moved out to Woolverstone to take over the village shop and post office from her parents.
Millie now lives in Holbrook and attends church there and I am still at Landseer Road. We have all continued to remain friends, through good and sad times and Millie and I can’t wait to be able to get back to our little jaunts on the buses with our free bus passes when this Covid crisis is finally behind us.
So, thank you to Millie and all the extended Page family.