First Memory

These are the memoirs of Kathleen Winifred Lamond (née Scott). She was born in Moore, Cheshire on 26th January 1893, the daughter of George Hall Scott, an eminent civil engineer, and his wife Margaret (née Wilkinson). She was the sister of the airship pioneer George Herbert Scott who died in the R.101 disaster.This account of her life covers the period from 1896, aged 3, to her marriage in 1922 to Douglas Lamond. She did not begin to write her story until well into her eighties and as far as I know she never kept a diary, so the very detailed narrative suggests a remarkable memory. The general absence of dates makes it sometimes difficult to pinpoint chronological events but her writing style is easy and the entire story is a touching recollection of middle class English life in a bygone age.She died on 26th December, 1982, and is buried alongside her husband in the church cemetery in the little Scottish village of Braco in Perthshire.