Memoir of Margaret Ann Rich, (1933-), of 42 Balfour Road, Brighton
From: Letter in the AtticThe memoir covers Margaret Rich’s life from the age of three to the age of 21. It briefly describes events in her family life but focuses on social and domestic life at the time and touches on topics such as local healthcare provision. The memoir also covers life in Brighton during the Second World War.
Creator
Rich, Margaret AnnDate of creation
1936-1954Extent
One 66-page memoir and scans of nine related photos.Access
OpenLicense
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)Reference number
LIA/42Background information
Margaret Rich was born at 5, Clifton Street and moved to 42 Balfour Road at the age of 4. She went to Balfour Road Primary School and then to Varndean Girls School between the ages of 11-16. After school, she worked at Varndean Boys School as a lab technician for three years and then became a lab assistant at Holes and Davigdor Dairies where she became involved in producing the first yoghurt to be commercially marketed in the UK. She grew up believing that she was living with her parents but she suspected from the age of 15 (and confirmed at the age of 35 by checking her birth certificate) that they were her grand-parents and the woman she knew as her half-sister was in fact her mother. She believes her father was her mother's cousin.
Margaret Rich aged 2 in Clifton Street
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