It was the Asian flu that brought my husband and me to Yorkshire. The 1956 epidemic affected around 9 million people and between 1956 and 1958 more than 33,000 people died in the U.K.

My husband’s family all became seriously ill with the flu and, as they were wholesale newsagents, there was no one left to deliver the papers. Although we had initially intended only to help out with deliveries, when the family recovered, we stayed.

We moved in with his parents in Knaresborough and eventually got our own house there. I loved Yorkshire as soon as I came here. It offers the best of both worlds; you are never far away from a city or the countryside. I have been here ever since.