Nation family houses 3

Little London (now painted cream in this photograph) in Hingham Norfolk where my paternal grandparents lived for many years. Where we went for Christmas every year and where it always snowed. Almost next door lived Edmund and Mariot Ironside who were great friends of my grandparents and the reason they moved to Norfolk. He was Field Marshall The Lord Ironside who had been CIGS at the beginning of WW2. He was an enormous man and whilst my grandfather was always 'grandpa' Bing Ironside was always called 'big old grandpa' by me. They had a Daimler and because he was so heavy, the driver's seat had collapsed so in effect he was sitting on the floor. Every time they drove past Little London all you could see was Mariot in the passenger seat, I don't know how they ever got anywhere. My grandmother Ivy was the first woman to play squash at Queens wearing shorts and was written up in the Daily Mail for so doing! More extraordinary is that we all think of skiing as being a relatively young sport but she and her sisters went every winter to Davos when they were 10-16 years old.