The Lonely Gotha

When Harold had to leave war torn gloomy North London in the early years of the First World War he had mixed feelings. Still mourning the death of his father on the Somme Harold's mother was taking him to live with her sister and uncle in the seaside town of Westgate-on-Sea on the south-east coast of Kent. Harold remembered one previous visit in the summer before the war of squawking seagulls striped deckchairs and a tiny cottage on the shore. A holiday was one thing but what would living there be like away from everything and everyone he knew?