Impression of 100-year-old
lady saved in a wheelbarrow - by Jamie.
Born 1813, a lady
of Saffron Walden,
Resident of the
Union Infirmary -
Otherwise known
as the workhouse -
Aged 102 in 1915,
reported
In papers as
having all her faculties.
Living though all
Victorian age, only
To reach a new
world crisis -
A lady of good
health was happily
Creating items
for sailors
And soldiers, for
their comforts.
In her ability
with needles, the lady
Had displayed
such work
At the Great
Chesterford Flower
Show, of Little
Chesterford -
The village
having been her home.
Only at the age
of 100 had she
Lost her home in
a fire,
That destroyed
half the village -
Escaping in her
nightdress -
Taken to safety
in a wheelbarrow.
As a survivor,
the homeless lady
Moved into the
infirmary,
Where she happily
made knitted
Comforts, for the
King's
Forces in France
and overseas.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. 102 Years
of Age. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 18 September. P.11. Col.1. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11869482/Daily-Telegraph-September-18-1915.html
[Accessed: 19 September 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 18 September 2015).
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