"The changes at the home opened up for me a whole new world of opportunity."
I had been at the home for about three years when I was called into the manager's office. A long time carer had decided to retire. Although I had helped out during the difficult times, I was not a carer....
"Owing to my size, it was obvious that certain men and women were attracted to me."
I never married for love but for security and status. When my brother and I were at school, he would sort out any boys that laughed at me because I was a midget. He would wait for them at the...
"I stopped growing when I was eight years old. I was a midget, but my intellect developed normally."
On my twenty-first birthday, I married Sir Peter Hargreaves. We must have looked comical when we stood at the altar. I was four-feet, seven-inches (but taller in high heels) and he was just over six feet. I was attending a...
"We all have memory's of happy days but Sarah's were more than a little perverted."
I was fortunate enough to secure a position as the night porter at a home for elderly well to do Jewish people. I was the only non-Jewish person in the place. I was twenty-three when I started my new job....
"My body clock was ticking.Was I ever going to be deflowered?"
When George and his wife Pamela were about to leave the estate he slipped a £20 note into my hand and smiled. I rather liked being paid for allowing certain things. You could say that it was a good arrangement...
"I was on the verge of insanity. My obsession with the estate and my family of Tree's was worrying."
After many years of service Edward's old jeep had finally given up the ghost. He'd had it for twenty-three years and went all over the estate in it. I was pleasantly surprised by his replacement mode of transport. A huge jet...
"My Uncle Edward was much more to me than he really should have been."
When I was seventeen, I received notification that I had been accepted by Oxford University for a three-year degree course in Business Studies and Economics. This meant that I had less than one year left on Edward's estate. Edward had...
"My Uncle Edward was much more to me than he really should have been."
My Uncle Edward made his fortune from the gold mines that he owned in South Africa. He was smart enough to sell out when the gold price was at its peak. He invested some of the proceeds into land in...
"There was something strange yet interesting about a certain old public toilet block."
The year was nineteen-seventy-one. I was at the local college studying for a diploma in advanced engineering. One lunchtime, a girl of about my age sat at my table. Quite by chance, we both had ordered the same meal.She was no...
"Things at Greenlands were not quite what they appeared to be."
There were always fifteen boys in the sixteen age group and the same number in the most senior group. There were also only ever six Madams and they came from six different countries. They were the very best and all...