Early Life

[{"id":1,"type":"text","position":0,"block_data":{"block_content":"I was born Frances Greetham on 5th April 1937, daughter of John Frederick William (Fred) Greetham and Frances Sophia Speight.\n\nI was the youngest of the family with an elder brother Kenneth, and four sisters Audrey, Doris, and the twins Joan and Shirley\n\nAs a child I was known by my family as Frankie, with the nickname Bubbles although I was called My Little Lamb by my Grandfather. \n\nI lived at 5 Wharton Street for the whole of my childhood until I got married, went to Macaulay Street School, Grimsby and later Armstrong Street Girls School. \n\nAlthough the first 8 years of my life the country was at war I never really felt scared. We did not have much money but I had a happy childhood, and I enjoyed the simplest things like my toy Rastas made my Mrs Deakins who made most of our toys and dresses when we were children.\n\nAs a child I enjoyed going to Brownies and later the Girl Guides with St Hugh's 19th Guides. I was also selected to be the Rose Queen in 1950 alongside my best friend Pam, with whom I was inseparable at the time. \n\nI was also a member at St Hugh's Church Youth Fellowship, and enjoyed outings with my friends to places like Scarborough in 1953 and Skegness in 1954.\n\nMy first job was at Burgons a local store at 49 Kent Street, Grimsby, grocers that only closed in 1980. Later my mother told me about a job working at the corner shop close to home to be on the meat counter as the meat slicer although I never really enjoyed slicing meat."}},{"id":2,"type":"photo_from_gallery","position":1,"block_data":{"photo_id":366,"photo_url":"https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/echoleft-production/images/2c69da93d180d266b944dc0899c4acc896f6bf07/original.jpg?1512822710"}},{"id":3,"type":"photo_from_gallery","position":2,"block_data":{}}]