Red House to Exodus: Growing up in Harpenden in the 1950s and 1960s

Di Castle was born at Harpenden Memorial Hospital (known as the Red House) The memoir, set in Harpenden, spans the 1950s and 1960s - a time of great social change following the Second World War. It includes her home experience, early schooldays. Subsequently, transition to grammar school was followed by secretarial training at St Albans College of Further Education. She then worked as a medical secretary at Luton and Dunstable Hospital and later at St Albans City Hospital.

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