Mum’s parents [Florence Ada and George Hall] had had a café in Queen Anne’s Court, in the West End of London, before the 1st World War but when the war started in 1914, and her Dad had been drafted into the army, her Mum could no longer continue to run it by herself and bring-up the children, so it had to be sold; Mum must have been no more than 4 or 5 years old. We had never known anything about this period in Mum’s life until she mentioned it sometime during the year 2000, when she was nearly 91 years old. The truth is that when she did mention it I thought it was little more than the ramblings of an old lady, after all it had never arisen before. However, not too long after this Lu went to Town and she took her camera with her. She visited Queen Anne’s Court and would you believe it, there is still a café cum baker shop on the spot where all those years earlier my Grandparents had had their little business. Mum’s mind had dredged up this long buried memory plus the fact that almost opposite there had been a theatre, there still is.
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