Caroline SAYER     (born Cyprus1952 now about 57 )
        William SAYER      (born Tanganyika?? 1954?? now about 55)
        Elizabeth SAYER   (born Northern Rhodesia?? 1959?? now about 50)
        Richard SAYER      (born Twickenham 1963  now about 46)

Last known address in Grosvenor Road, Twickenham, Middlesex in 1972 ?.
I believe I remember that the local authority wanted to redevelop the house and eventually bought the house they lived in.
I think I remember the number 1 but I cannot be sure.
It was a tall, somewhat dilapidated, Victorian  semi-detached house.

Grosvenor road was the subject of conflict with the powers that be  and number 7 the start? of a (still remembered) squat in the seventies.




http://www.grosvenor-road.co.uk


Pat was married to Colin Sayer in 1951 in Cyprus where he worked for the public works department as a hydrologist.
Pat had trained as a nurse at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) Glasgow

Pat was a practicing catholic and attended St. Margaret's Roman Catholic Church
and the White Fathers from Mill Hill Missionary College

She and the children may have lived at the Sherborne Hall (or perhaps Sherborne House) Commune in Gloucester shire in the Seventies

They also lived and worked in Tanganyika.

Colin studied for a postgraduate course in Delft Holland

In the eighties I returned to England and visited my step mother Mary (since deceased}  and brother Stephen who still lives in Twickenham.
She had not seen the family for some time but had addresses for Richard, in Oxford and Elizabeth ,in Totnes, Devon.
As fate would have it I was going to Witney on business and followed up Richard at ParkTown a street in Oxford where the lady in the basement flat remembered him.But he had moved on and and she did not know where.

I returned to Germany and the following year followed up the other address

Elizabeth Sayer
Foxglove girls ?? school
Red and yellow foxhole
Dartington hall school
Totnes South Devon

My stepmother thought Liz said she worked there (as a teacher?)
This must have been about 1985
By the time I tried to make contact the school had closed.

Later I found Anne Baldwin's web site and to my surprise William and Richard Sayer are listed on

http://www.dartingtonhallschool.co.uk/
And
here



Colin whose family came from Maidstone Road Chatham died in 1998.

I do not know when my sister and Colin divorced but he remarried in 1981.

I have had contact via Colin's ex wife with his sister Mona.

His ex wife  kindly emailed me  and I quote

"Colin told me they all lived in Howarth (not sure of the spelling) on the borders of Scotland.
They were all doing self-awareness courses.
His sister  Mona has told me this morning that Pat is in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the same area"
In my notes I have written "nun" but whether as fact or inference I cannot remember.