Tracing your Roots – Radio 4

[Currie]

Hello Lesley,

I actually tried the 15 minute thing once, in a graveyard I thought I knew like the back of my hand. I went straight to where I expected grave 150 or whatever to be but couldn’t find it. I think I then lost my confidence and made the mistake of wandering around. Eventually I gave up and walked the long walk to the caretaker’s office. He told me that years ago, to make more room, part of a laneway had been reclaimed, and that grave 150 was located next to grave 1. Those 15 minutes lasted over an hour.

Alan