Message from New Zealand

WE were listening to the messages of support from all around the world after the recent earthquake and my heart jumped when I heard one from Bexhill.

I was born there nearly 76 years ago and my father was a doctor in the Dick, Winchester and Kerr surgery. As our home at 9 De La Warr Road had been requisitioned and then bombed, my parents decided to make a fresh start in New Zealand. My sister was at Lancaster House and I was at Grammar School.Our names were Joan and Gillian Kerr.I wonder if any 81 and 76-year-olds might remember us?

I do have many happy memories of Bexhill - Heather and Peter Longley, Stanley Courtenay and his antique shop, Mr Murrell and his bathing sheds, Miss Garnerand her riding school. I watch with interest when the Antiques Roadshow visits the De La Warr Pavilion - a very different building from the pockmarked one I remember!

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Thank you to the people who thought of us. My father chose New Zealand because he remembered the food sent during the war to starving England. He fought with the NZ troops in Egypt and liked them.

But we can’t control Mother Nature .

I think the name of the Bexhill couple who sent a message was either Peter and Sue Webb or Fabian

GILL DAVENPORT

Karori ,Wellington NZ