Wendy Bishop survived World War 2 and went on to open a famous hospital for teddy bears. But she never got to see her great-great-granddaughters.
in the small town where she lived in the Scottish Highlands. She was 97 years old, and had lived an extraordinary life: serving as a medic during the Second World War, raising six children, and later opening a hospital for injured dolls and teddy bears where she repaired toys sent to her from around the world.
Almost 80 years later, his relatives are still in touch with Bishop’s family, and her ashes will be buried alongside her first love in Golders Green crematorium, north London. Bishop also loved to write — she wrote letters and poetry, and she kept diaries. After she died, Johanna found her grandmother's memoirs,"pages and pages and pages" of her life story, that her family hadn't even known she was writing. They are now considering getting trying to get them published.
“I'd pop in the shop just to see what other exciting things that she'd received,” she added. “It was just extraordinary.”Johanna, who spent her early years in Bournemouth before moving up to Scotland, where she now lives, fondly remembers her summer holidays with her gran in the Highlands. “She’d always stop and speak to somebody,” Johanna said, “and when she got talking to somebody you knew you were there for about two hours, because people were so interested to talk to her.”
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