Jose Watson (nee Bevan) of Trewinnard, Cornwall, wrote in with memories of a post-war trip to Belgium.

I was born in Watford in 1936, went to local schools, parents and grandparents born and bred in Watford.

My mother was born and died in Watford, my father was Welsh. My mother was a widow left with two young children to bring up on her own, which I am proud to say she did well.

In Easter 1948, I was one of 300 war orphaned children from Watford who went to Belgium with Save the Children for a holiday as a gift from the Belgian people to the children of England. We must have made the local newspaper I'm sure.

I stayed with a family in Mortsel in 1948 and kept in touch ever since, then I was 11 years old. This year my pen-pal will be 70 years old and I will be visiting her with my husband.

I was wondering how many other Watford children in 1948 have still kept friendly with their Belgium friends of that holiday?

To add to the story, my husband and I both went to the old Bushey Grammar School, as the first intake of a new Co-Ed Grammar School.

We both left in the summer of 1954, (married July 1958), 50 years last year and have never been back to the school or met any of our old school pals.

We have two children and three lovely grandchildren. We have lived here in Cornwall since 1971.