My cousin has posted a video filmed in 1970 of a reunion of my Nanny and her long lost daughter who was sent to Dr Barnados as a toddler. My grandmother had the child when her husband was missing presumed dead during the First World War. His mother insisted that the child was given up. My grandmother didn't see her for 50 years.
The video shows my grandmother with the rest of her 13 children and grandchildren and my Aunty Doris. In the video is my dad. He died aged 58 31 years ago. It was so strange and wonderful seeing him 'moving' if only for a few seconds. I didn't realise how much it would affect me. I have watched the tiny clip of him several times now. This evening I lay on my settee and wept for him - I miss him so much. He was a beautiful and funny man and I just wish he could have met my grandchildren and my youngest son.
