Penicillin had been discovered but was reserved for our troops or those that could pay for treatment.
Six months later, John slipped on the steps to their house after a rain shower. He was also “damaged goods” - he had had polio and used callipers, so no woman wanted to “take on a cripple”. She was “damaged goods” and no man wanted to “take on” the bastard child of another.īut in 1944 she met and fell in love with John Waterworth. Chris’s dad’s mother, Isabella, had Chris’s dad out of wedlock in 1918 and suffered real opprobrium for it from the judgmental folk of Bacup.
