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Aide Memoire to some of the characters in this book:

The first hotel     
                 
Mr Wood                                
Mrs Green
Mrs Albertyn                                          
The Macauley sisters
The Testers

Sister in law: 

Barbra (and Alan)

The second hotel:

Elsie and Bill
Avis                                                        
Margo                                                     
Mrs de Courcey

Show people (Walthamstow):

Mary
Maggy
Joan G

School people:                                      

Myrna                                                     
Nova (husband Mike, son Craig)
Sue                                          
Dawn (husband Eric, Son Bradley, Daughter Tracey)
Pam (Dawn’s sister)
Hillary                         

Lodgers (Woodford)

Carol
Penny

The Business College:

Renate

Other Friends:

Merrill

The Solicitors' staff:

Davie Boy
Ali
Clare (later in England) (husband Colin)
Mary

The Accountants job:

Ilma
June
Ruth
Jeff
Margaret

Show people (Durban):

Mrs Scorgie
Faith
Pixie
Douglas
Colleen (Keith's sister)
Wendy

The Union job:

Mike
Lynette
Lorna
Little Roy
Beverley

Skating People

Rodney
John Nicks

Lodgers (Walthamstow)

Anna
Liz
Irene (Pixie’s daughter)~
Barrister  pupils Adnan & Michael

Scientologists:

Cyril (married to Rosalie and then Rebecca)  Children:  Lindy Lou, Sean, Ashley.
Jenny (and Herbie) Children: Victoria, Sally and Nicholas

Moorfields Hospital

Mrs Newman

Kensington job:

Margaret the posh one

BT in London:

Angela
Lynne
Amanda
JG
Janice
Eddie
Linda
Carol

Relatives:

Auntie Kathleen
Aunt Isobel
Aunt Mabel
Cousin Ann

BT in Hove:

Sheila
June R

Odhams job:

Maureen
Jackie

The Deli:

Ray

Flintkote job:

Ann3
Teeny Shirley
Angela
Ina

Boy friends, Partners and husbands (and their later partners and previous or future children):

Keith - Monica

Graham -  2) Laina, (daughter Petal)                            

3) Heather, (son Richard and Leanne, daughter from  her  first marriage)

                4) Sue, (son Martin)

John (Sep) - Clare

Ted (daughters from previous marriage Joanne and Lesley)

Flatmate:

Shirley (daughter Susie)

Offsprings' partners and husbands:

1) Trevor (Jennifer)
2) Roger (Jennifer)

1) Paul  (Cathy) (Dot, Paul’s mother, Julie, Paul’s sister)
2) John  (Cathy)

The Laundry:

Frances

Cathy’s friends

Denise (the Workman! her father, and Beryl, her  mother)
Kate, the opera singer who didn’t eat much

Neighbours:

Eileen (son Graham K, sister Jean)
Two Pams (one in Highams Park one in Woodford)

Grandchildren:

Ben          (Jen and Roger)
Emily       (Jen and Roger)
William    (Cathy and John)

Ted's Grandchildren:

Gemma, Sophie, Georgia and Connor (Joanne)
Lauren (Lesley)