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When Evelyn Taylor found herself separated from her friend and cousin Millie, late at night, on the way home across the fields from Stanton, it worried her a good deal less than it would have done today. Solitary girls, then, could reckon themselves safe from unwelcome encounters. But when she broke the strap of her sandal and was fumbling in the dark to repair it, the encounter she did meet was far from unwelcome. 鈥淟et me help you,鈥� said a soldier from the searchlight battery, and help her he did 鈥� for the next 40 years. Jim Bristow from Liverpool lost no time in securing a place in the heart of Youlgrave鈥檚 one-time Carnival Queen. They were married in 1942 at Bakewell Registry Office before being blessed at the Catholic Church 鈥� Evelyn remained true to her Methodist upbringing. But separation came all too soon. Jim served out the rest of the war in Italy and, when reunion came in 1945, they lost no time in settling to home life in Grove Place and completing the family of five boys and three girls that they had already started.

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