Thanks for the memory

Margot Craig wrote the letter (below) when she was six

With mum and dad in Bridlington: Margot is the younger girl

An 80-year old woman was amazed to learn that a letter she wrote when she was six years old is now an artefact in Hull History Centre.
Mrs Margot Craig (nee Agerskaw) wrote the letter in around 1939 to her father who was a trawler skipper.
"My mother was keen for us to write, so my sister and I often wrote letters for my father to take with him to sea," said Margot, who grew up on AnIaby High Road and attended St. Mary's Convent School.
The letter is now one of thousands of treasured documents being preserved at Hull History Centre, including the speeches of William Wilberforce and the papers of poets Andrew Marvell and Phillip Larkin.
"I was absolutely amazed to know about the interest in this letter, and also amazed the letter was still there after 70 years," added Margot, of Woking, Surrey, who was traced following an appeal on BBC Radio Humberside.
The letter was among the papers of Margot's father which were donated to the University of Hull in 1970 to aid research into the fishing industry.
The Hull History Centre brings together the university archives with Hull City Council's family history and city archives units.

For more information visit www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk or call 317500