Anne and Miss Dave
Evacuated at nine months old to Hyde House in Dorset, the Caldecott Community was Anne's home until she was fifteen. At fifteen she was sent out into the world, first to Switzerland to learn French, and then back to England, where she even worked for a time in the Caldecott nursery.
She was adopted by Miss Davis (Miss Dave) when she was almost nine, and this photograph may show the two of them together on the day she was adopted.
As a natural archivist Anne gathered memories and documents around her, including autograph letters from Poet Laureate John Masefield to the Caldecott's Leila Rendel. In 2006 she suggested that an archive be found for the Caldecott Community materials which had been gathered together, and in 2007 these materials began to flow to the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre in Toddington, Gloucestershire (now MB3). They were followed to Toddington by Caldecott Community children, staff and family members in regular working reunions of exploring, preserving, explaining, cataloguing, sharing, recording, adding, and even creating more material.