by Judith Ellis, 31 December, 2005
Fanny Bertha Coldicott nee Greenall died on 23rd December 2005, aged 93 years. She was born on 28th March 1912 in Park Road, one of four children born to George and May Greenall nee Pinchin.
While still at school she worked each evening and at week-ends for the well known Guilds-man Wentworth Huyshe and his wife, then residing at Pike Cottage on the junction of Sheep Street and Catbrook.
From time to time Fanny would also help her eldest sister Gertrude with her work for the Guilds-man, sculptor, Alec Miller at and his wife at Saviour’s Bank.
On leaving school she was first employed in the Old Grammar School as a dormatory maid before moving on to employment with solicitor Mr Guy Pemberton, living at that time in Sheep Street. From the Pemberton residence she moved to the Police Station to take up the position of nanny to the newly installed Divisional Police Commander, Superintendent Jones and his family. On the deaths of her parents, aged 23 she married Charles Coldicott of Honeybourne. On her death she is survived by two children, three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
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