My relationship to Sarah Frances Norfield is that my grandmother on my mum's side was the sister-in-law of Sarah (her 1st marriage, to Harold(?) Willson). The nursing home she ran after the Great War was a business jointly with her first husband (hence the name of the nursing home). My mum was born in the nursing home and she confirms that the picture showing the nurses and soldiers was not that one (it was a "civilian" one not a military one).
Sarah divorced and eventually remarried to become Sarah Stillwell, which was the name I knew her by (she was widowed by the time I first met her). Her home by then was in Boundary Road, Hove.
She came to live with us for the last few years of her life when I was still at school. I can remember listening with her to her "talking books" (she was registered as blind by then) and she also liked classical music, especially Mozart symphonies, no 39 being her favourite. She also used to listen to "Pick of the Pops" (Alan Freeman) and had a fondness for "Yesterday" by The Beatles!
Simmbeag
