Page 8 of Kathleen Boyle

From all this experience came a great love of the countryside and everything to do with nature. By the time I was eighteen, long after the war, my best ‘A’ level was biology – there could have been a reason for that don’t you think.
I had very little communication with home in this time that I remember but I returned home and back to school in time for my 11 + year, Only two children passed the North Riding scholarship that year and went free to a Grammar school, myself and another boy – a couple more went as free-paying pupils. Evacuation must have done me some good – it certainly was a lesson in life!

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