Who Do You Think You Are?

‘MY RELATIONS WERE WOMEN OF STEEL’

Victor Nutt remembers visiting his gran, Sarah Wilmot, in New Eltham, South-East London, and watching her cooking up mash for the chickens. He can also see his dad and grandad playing cribbage at the dining-room table.

It’s a cosy picture of 1950s life, and there is little to hint at the struggles Sarah (née Manning) had to overcome from the earliest

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