Mollie Moran (1916-2014) grew up in Norfolk and was sent to London as a scullery maid at the age of fourteen. She left her employer in 1938 to marry an Irish airman, with whom she later ran a hotel in Bournemouth. When she was well into her nineties, Mollie still regularly hosted Scrabble parties and cooked for up to twenty-five people.
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Mollie Moran is one of the few people alive today who can recall working 'downstairs' in the early 1930s before the outbreak of World War II. In Minding the Manor, she provides a rare and fascinating insight into a world that has long since vanished. Mo... SEE MORE