Early Days
Marjorie was born on January 10, 1904, in this famous northern London area.
What is Highgate
In her youth, before modern push strollers, babies were transported in these large, high-wheeled wicker carriages.
What are bassinets?
To protect themselves from flying glass during air raids, Marjorie glued this material across all the windows of their Woking house.
What is net?
Grandpa Mick's real first name, which Marjorie didn't learn for the first six months of knowing him, was this.
What is Randal John?
Marjorie and Mick's eldest son, Brian, eventually settled and married Elaine in this country.
What is the United States?
Marjorie saved half a pound of sugar every week so she could make this citrus spread to keep her family going for breakfast during the war.
What is marmalade?
To officially be considered a true "Cockney," one had to be born within the sound of the chimes of this specific east end church.
What is Bow Church (Bow Bells)?
Marjorie saved up her tiny weekly pocket money for over two years to buy this item when she turned 15.
What is a bicycle?
Instead of using an outdoor shelter that would aggravate David’s asthma, the family slept under this extended piece of furniture with mattresses.
What is the dining room table?
Grandpa Mick originally earned his lifelong nickname because he was inseparable from an Irish school friend who had this wonderful talent.
What is a singing voice?
After her nurse training and a stint working at Harrods, Audrey moved across the United States and lived in this hilly California city for two years.
What is San Francisco?
To sweep up dust without modern electric sweepers, Marjorie sprinkled these wet kitchen items over the carpet before using a dustpan and brush.
What are tea leaves?
Marjorie’s father, Henry George Chaston, worked for seven years as an apprentice to earn this professional title.
What is a master Engraver?
Marjorie won an entrance scholarship to attend this specific girls' school in north London.
What is Parliment Hill school?
When food items were severely limited, Marjorie successfully stretched ingredients and made breakfast spreads using this powdered emergency ration.
What is egg powder?
Grandpa Mick’s "biggest baby" and proudest responsibility within his Post Office department was the production and design of these items.
What are postage stamps?
David pursued advanced studies abroad and later built a long academic career as a professor of languages at this university in Pennsylvania.
What is Lehigh University?
Due to severe wartime shortages, the official weekly ration of this dairy spread was often cut down to just two or even one ounce per person.
What is butter?
Marjorie’s maternal grandfather, Edouard Antoine Moranne, originally came from this region in the south of France.
What is the Basque country?
This domestic food law meant every loaf had to weigh two pounds, leading children to snack on the cut-off "make weight" piece on the walk home.
What is the two pound loaf law?
During the war, Marjorie earned her diploma in needlework and eventually spent 16 years teaching dress design, millinery, and sewing at this arts school.
What is Farnham Arts School?
At age 49, Grandpa Mick became the youngest person ever appointed to this high-level department group.
What is the Controlling Board?
In her later years, Marjorie lived independently in a historic 18th-century cottage built of thick Cotswold stone located in this village.
What is Charlbury?
When purchasing fuel for the household, the coalman would deliver a 100-pound bag and drop it directly down into this basement feature.
What is a coal hole?
After her father passed away at age 15, Marjorie's grandmother Rosa ran a successful dressmaking business that eventually made dresses for debutantes appearing for these special events.
What are court presentations?
Before electricity and modern streetlights became common, these workers carried long rods to light and extinguish the gas lamps at dawn and dusk.
Who are lamplighters?
Grandpa Mick was seconded to work grueling hours right before and during the early years of the war on this specific government panel.
What is the Prime Ministers panel on rearmament?
For his exceptional public service, Grandpa Mick was awarded this prestigious honor, featuring a pale blue enamel insignia presented by the Queen.
What is the CBE? (Commander of the British Empire)
To celebrate Marjorie's 87th birthday during her Christmas visit to America in 1991, Brian flew her down to this city week by week to meet all her new great-grandchildren.
What is Wilmington?
Before the days of vacuum cleaners and gas or electric heating, Marjorie's mother managed a large household of 7 to 8 adults with the help of this.
What is a domestic servant? (Maid)