The kindness of strangers…

15/03/2007 by the walkers.

Eddie writes; today my neighbour came across to read the blog and expressed a personal interest in sponsoring us. Aileen said, “I must sponsor you because my father was a seafarer and died at sea when I was very young in 1949 and from then, until my mother died in 1957, we were welcomed by the AOS at South Shields three times a year where provisions were given to us. It helped my poor mother no end. We even received parcels from as far away as Australia and Canada from the soldiers and seafarers welfare. By sponsoring you I am helping to repay in some small way the kindness of strangers who kept the wolf from the door. I have never forgotten it.”

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