Lydia Harris and her husband lived in Walford and had 4 children inbetween about 1937 and 1942. Those children being Geoffrey Harris, Joan Harris, Jimmy Harris and Pat. When Pat was very young, Lydia sent her elder daughter Joan to a nursing home in Sussex as she had Downs Syndrome. She said to Pat that Joan had died. In later life when her children left home, Lydia died aged 61 of cancer in the late 1970s.