At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.
“When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.”
“Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.”