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17th January, 1946.
Tom’s reply to Helen’s first letter crosses in the post with the conflicted one she sent him the day before. He asks her to do him a favour by visiting Auchengate before she travels east to meet him.
19th December, 2019.
Lindsay is back in the therapy room with news of a recent trip to Auchengate with her daughters and describes what this visit provoked in her that almost got in the way of noticing a deterioration in her mother’s condition.
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A return to the therapy room
12th December, 2019 It’s week four of the ‘assessment phase’ and Lindsay is back in the therapy room. This week, she talks for the first time about her girls. Her experience of motherhood. Meanwhile, in the letters, it’s mid-January 1946 and Helen is conflicted over what she must do to secure her future with Tom. There’s more on life at Lochgreen, and thi…
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Held in Mind: a Memoir
Episode Four: Episode 3: The First of the Letters WW2 may have officially been declared over months previously, but in early 1946 many were still awaiting their demob. My grandfather, Tom, was no exception. A sailor in the Merchant Navy, he was stationed at Granton north of Edinburgh on Scotland’s east coast. The sawmill, Auchengate, that his family owned…
