Nanny Barbara - Barbara's Life Post War

I am indebted to my Aunt Eleanor for keeping all the photographs and pieces of paper sent to her by her sister Barbara. Even this 78 year old crumpled piece of paper containing a recipe for "Christmas Plum Pudding 1939 for 2 Puddings" has been brought to life because Barbara decided to add a few words at the very bottom. 

"I made these puddings myself and were jolly good.  The Baron received his, and he and his comrades sang God Save The King and drank the Baroness and my health."
  
Marvellous!

This pudding was made and eaten only a few months before Barbara and Diana and the children ran for their lives.  

I don't have any information as to where Barbara went when she got back to England, I can only assume that she travelled back to 16 Milton Street Greenside, County Durham to be cared for by her parents and sister.  

When Barbara was well enough she again travelled to the Derby area probably to work again, perhaps even becoming nanny to some of the "unknown" little girls in the photographs posted earlier.  

Eventually Barbara met and married Wilfred Bull (Bill) and had children of her own, Ann born 1944 and Barrie 1947,which would make Barbara about 40 when she had her first child. 

Barbara with Ann 1944

Here is a photograph taken circa 1970 with Barbara and her family, and my family all together at Aunt Barbara's. She always made us very welcome.  Barbara would be around 62 at the time.

Bottom Row R-L Bill Bull (Barbara's husband) Jean Stafford (my mother) Dorothy Tweddell (nee Stafford my sister) Norman Stafford (my father)     Middle Row R-L Barrie Bull (Barbara's son) (me Pauline Tweddell nee Stafford) Ian Tweddell (my sister's husband) Barbara Bull (nee Stafford)   Back Row R-L Ann Buxton (nee Bull Barbara's daughter) Ray Buxton  (Ann's first husband)  My husband taking photograph (my sister and I married brothers)


Barbara and Bill worked hard, he was a civil servant and they also owned a small-holding next to a canal, the house was called the Potlocks.  My sister and I had some lovely holidays there with our parents and our cousins. A few years ago Barbara's daughter Ann visited Bosmelet.

Barbara had a long life, and died in 1997 at the age of 93 in a nursing home near Truro close to where she had previously lived with her son Barrie and his wife.