Excerpts from My Autobiography

Over the past few months here in the sunny and warm US south, I have been focusing on writing an Autobiography. It has been a real journey looking into my past of where I've been and what it was like to experience so many things. Thank goodness I was a note taker and kept a journal and so many pictures.  

"Belmont Hospital was a Psychoneurosis Hospital”, using treatment that was geared for those diagnosed with depression, suicidal, anxiety, psycho-somatic and phobic symptoms. It had an open-door policy where the patients coming  and going  freely." 

"We had become 'British Mental Health Nurses'. Our wages would be twenty -five pounds an month, which translated in 1959 to be $100.00 a month."

Lorraine Marion Jacqui

"We took a bus as far as Oxford that night. We were carrying heavy luggage and when we arrive at the Youth Hostel, it was closed. We ending up, with the help of a student, find a quaint place for the night. The next day we sent our luggage on to Edinburgh, carrying only what we needed for our trip. Now we could see some of Oxford without being weighted down and to hitch-hike on to Blackpool". 

"This was the beginning of our hitch-hiking mode of travelling."