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Pat describes her jouney to Australia in 1948 on the SS Ormonde.  On the voyage she was befriended by a kindly man and his family Mr. Fallong, that helped make her journey much more enjoyable.

Pat relays how she learned in 1946 at the age of 13 that she may be selected to journey to Australia to live,  She spent the next couple of years learning about Australia and overcoming her fears about such a long journey. On 17th December 1948 she left Nazareth House, her...

Pat talks about her life in the Nazareth House orphange in Plymouth, Devon. Here she recalls the schooling she received, a far cry from school in 2013.  

Pat recalls her early teenage years at Nazareth House Orphange in Plymouth, Devon.

As Nazareth House, the orphange in which Pat lived, had a no pet policy Pat has chosen to talk about the people who she looked up to at the Orphange.  

Pat's early schooling was at the Nazareth House orphange and from the age of 12 she went to a local High School.  

Pat recalls living at Nazareth House Orphanage in Plymouth during the war years and afterwards.  

Pat continues her story about her childhood in the Nazareth House orphanage in Plymouth, Devon.  

Pat spent the first three years of her life in the norsery of the orphange where she had been put by her mother - Nazareth House, Plymouth, Devon. Pat shares this story with the Life Story Circle.....

Pat has no personal memories of her parents because of the circumstances surrounding her birth.

Pat recalls Christmas 1938 which she spent in Nazareth House, a orphanage in Plymouth, Devon.