The power of wallpaper to stir memories

RECENTLY, on the Homes and Garden pages (Yorkshire Post Weekend Magazine, January 11) a picture was published of some wallpaper with the design based on the landscape of Dungeness in Kent. I sent the page to a friend who lives within a mile of that area.

Her late husband used to keep his fishing boats there, as does their son. I was speaking to her the other evening and she said this had caused great interest among friends and family; they were able to identify the boat, sheds and other features pictured.

The cottage is the one owned by the late Derek Jarman 
(still maintained, I believe by 
his friends) with its unusual garden of driftwood and pebble patterns (I saw it a couple of years ago).

The “quaint cabins” were, and still are, homes to the fishing families who have lived on Dungeness for generations; 
I well remember visiting my friend’s mother-in-law in 
her cottage where she had brought up her family of nine children.

It is interesting what a feature about wallpaper can lead to.