Ginny Hartman

Dear Mam Ginny Hartman

In 2019 a box was found in the attic of a house which had been owned by a lady who now lives in a care home, suffering from dementia. In the box were photographs, press cuttings and memorabilia which showed a great journey had been made in 1934 by a Mr and Mrs Fuller, who had travelled from their home on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border to the Sahara Desert in a Chevrolet Eccles motor home, taking their maid, Mary with them, providing her with a tent to sleep in, outside the motor home. Nothing more is known about Mr and Mrs Fuller or Mary the maid. Sadly the lady who owned the house now has no memory. According to the press cuttings, the Fullers trekked through Europe to Algeria, with their maid sleeping under the stars in a tent all the way. They completed their journey and then travelled back to the Midlands with a live monkey in their caravan as a souvenir. However, no mention is made of Mary returning from the desert with her employers and their pet monkey! This 17 year old girl who had been in service to Mr and Mrs Fuller since she had left school at 14 and had never been further than Derby all her life and had found herself trekking and camping halfway across the world at her employers bidding. Whatever had happened to her in the Sahara desert! Did she get home unscathed? Or not?