eccentric and, for the last 20 years of her life, lived in her own world of poems and Gracie Fields."All she wanted to do was write poems. She wrote a whole life story of Gracie Fields in verse and had letters from the Queen, Charlie Chaplin, Margaret Thatcher and others thanking her for her poems."
Many of Beryl [Down]'s poems recall staff and life at Rossiter's, particularly members of the Rossiter family.
from Herald Express: Open invite to poet's funeral
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