This is me at the age of around four in the year nineteen-mumblety-mumble…
That's my dad beside me, Lt Col Terence Pierce-Goulding, although he himself never bothered much with titles and formality.
Whenever I asked him, "What did you do in the war, daddy?" (he was quite a bit older than my mother) he used to reply, "I cooked the sausages for all the other soldiers."
It wasn't until years later that I found out that he was involved in the Canadian army operation for D-Day and went on to serve on Montgomery's staff and later yet at the Nuremberg Trials.
Until I was two, we lived in Grosvenor Square. Grosvenor Square is where I learned to walk. And where I learned to guide. My mother always told the tale of how I would totter through Grosvenor Square, point at this statue of Roosevelt…
… and utter the word:
"Daddy!"
The pic at the top of this post was taken in the garden of the house in which I was brought up on Meadway in Hampstead Garden Suburb. We be pass by the old place on my Hampstead Garden Suburb tour this Sunday 12th May. Meet me at 10:45a.m Golders Green tube
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Karen
She is, quite simply, a star turn – which is why she's the "go to" London guide for every major media concern. A reformed actress and occasional journalist, her gold standard walks are, needless to say, vivid and entertaining.
She's the author of Royal London.
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