Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Hanging on by my fingertip

Simon: I mean that’s a sort of funny story. Can you remember any other funny stories during any of your Pack’s times?

Christine: Only me falling down the stairs. Oh, I did, again (laughs) it really wasn’t funny actually. I think French Frank’s has I think two side windows at the entrance, and we used to dress the side windows and I can remember there was a big coat hook.

I stood on a step that they used in the Haberdashery and the step went from under me and I hung on by one finger, dropped down and then bruised my coccyx which has been with me for the rest of my life (laughs), but everybody laughed when I did it.

They didn’t realise that actually I’d been really quite hurt. They just thought it was funny. I remember Mary Philips saying to me,

“Just seeing you hanging on by one finger on this big hook which eventually gave up.”

She said it was hilarious.