My Mum went to 13 different schools during the war, as her parents were constantly on the move too..She'd be 80 now, if she were still alive..She also lived in Hendon for a while, Michael...and of course, I lived in Sidmouth.. :0)

She found it, naturally, very disruptive and scary, always 'the new girl', never settling anywhere. Maybe it's why we lived in the same house all our lives as children and when, finally, Mum and Dad moved down to Devon with us, Mum was totally unable to cope with the whole 'moving house' experience, going out for the day, day after day, unable to pack anything, or watch her home being dismantled, as such.