{"id":623,"date":"2020-04-14T12:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T11:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostlogos.co.uk\/?page_id=623"},"modified":"2020-05-22T11:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T10:51:35","slug":"yvonne-edwards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?page_id=623","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne Edwards (aunt and, later, guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yvonne-mug-shot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yvonne-mug-shot-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yvonne-mug-shot-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yvonne-mug-shot-789x1024.jpg 789w, https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yvonne-mug-shot-768x997.jpg 768w, https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yvonne-mug-shot-1183x1536.jpg 1183w, https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yvonne-mug-shot.jpg 1206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Yvonne was a headteacher in London and never married.  When Maggie could no longer tolerate living with her stepmother, she caught a train to London &#8211; she was about 11 years old.  Forewarned, Yvonne was waiting at Paddington and became her guardian.  Maggie never spoke to her father again.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had first become a head at a Battersea secondary school &#8211; relatively young, in her mid 30s &#8211; and was appointed to Albany School in Enfield in 1967 as it became a Comprehensive.    She was very pro-active and , like her father, always quick to seize an opportunity to promote her cause.  Here are some clippings from local papers at the time &#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-5 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1967-Black-Face-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1967-Black-Face-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"626\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1967-Black-Face-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?attachment_id=626\" class=\"wp-image-626\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><strong>1967<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1972-Teacher-retirement-001-1-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1972-Teacher-retirement-001-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"628\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1972-Teacher-retirement-001-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?attachment_id=628\" class=\"wp-image-628\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">1972<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1972-ROSLA-001-1-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1972-ROSLA-001-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"629\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1972-ROSLA-001-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?attachment_id=629\" class=\"wp-image-629\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">1972 RoSLA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1972-Class-Revolt-001-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1972-Class-Revolt-001-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"602\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1972-Class-Revolt-001-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?attachment_id=602\" class=\"wp-image-602\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">1972 Revolt!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1974-Minibus-001-1-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1974-Minibus-001-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"630\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1974-Minibus-001-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?attachment_id=630\" class=\"wp-image-630\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">1974<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Landsend-001-1-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Landsend-001-1-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Landsend-001-1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Landsend-001-1-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Landsend-001-1-768x1173.jpg 768w, https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Landsend-001-1-1006x1536.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Landsend-001-1-1341x2048.jpg 1341w, https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Landsend-001-1-1568x2394.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Landsend-001-1-scaled.jpg 1677w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite her career successes I often felt sad that she had not found a companion in life &#8211; in some ways I am sure Maggie helped to fill that void. She spent all her holidays travelling and started to write articles for magazines describing her adventures.  For some while she had traveled with a companion but after he succumbed to cancer she remained alone.  Maggie then accompanied her on many trips, including to North Africa.  In this picture they are a little closer to home!<br>After her retirement she moved to Portsmouth to be nearer to us and lived first in a flat facing Southsea Common, not far from the Queens Hotel and later in a little house in Victoria Road South &#8211; handy for Waitrose!  She, like her mother, sister, brother and, of course, Maggie, died of cancer at a young age, little more than 60.  She is buried in Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?page_id=1435\">Return to &#8216;Roots &#8230;&#8217;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTE TO ME: SCAN TRAVEL ARTICLE(S)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvonne was a headteacher in London and never married. When Maggie could no longer tolerate living with her stepmother, she caught a train to London &#8211; she was about 11 years old. Forewarned, Yvonne was waiting at Paddington and became her guardian. Maggie never spoke to her father again. She had first become a head &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?page_id=623\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yvonne Edwards (aunt and, later, guardian)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1435,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/623\/revisions\/1483"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}