Kathleen Leedham-Green remembers her grandparents:

‘At that time the house incorporated the 2 neighbouring buildings as you face the house to the right. One housed their GP practice, the other their garage with bedrooms down a long corridor from the main house above. I remember my grandmother waving a letter at someone passing her window saying: "he's another one of my babies, he'll post this letter for me". The man in question was about 40. She used to say that she or Dr John had helped deliver almost half the population of Southwold!

I remember being shown my grandmother’s consulting room  which  was accessed via a heavy, sound-proofed, padded door in the dining room (the room to the right as you face the front door). It led down a few steep wooden steps into the surgery corridor. Dr Mary was known to offer her patients a cigarette and/or a nip of something if they were particularly troubled.’