MY MOTHER, Mary Josephine Livingstone, was based in Kendal until the Second World War, when she joined up as a Wren.

She was transferred in 1944 to New York to help coordinate the Atlantic shipping movements. There she met my father, who had moved to Canada on the collapse of his father's cotton business.

They were married a few months after their first meeting, on Vancouver Island, where my father had been appointed head of the Fairbridge Farm School.

The Fairbridge HQ was in London, its task being to coordinate the acquisition and transport of children from the poorer parts of the country to its schools in Canada and Australia.

To make contact with the parents of these children, the Fairbridge Society set up liaison centres around the country, and one of these was in Kendal. Do Gazette readers have any information about it?

Will Garnett

Grange-over-Sands