When Mary's Dad Ted moved down from Aberdeen in 1939 to take a job at Sovex in Erith he took digs with a very kind landlady who he called 

Mother McMahon in a house in Northumberland Way in Erith.  Many years later when Auntie Lilian moved out of Swanton Road, she bought the very

same house - we were so amazed, especially Ted!  When Lilian invited Ted around, he was able to tell her of the experiences he had had in that

house during the second world war.  It is strange how families' paths cross!!