A good neighbour: Rosalie Miles

It's funny the things you learn about people you used to know in your own back yard. Just a few doors down Granville Road lived Rosalie, who was, as the Clacton and Frinton Gazette says, a figure locally often seen walking her two dogs through the nearby Recreation Ground, with the replacement electronic voicebox for her lost larynx. I always found her amiable whenever I saw her - although I confess in later years I was often too shy to chat because of her Dalek-like voice!