Ever since the death of their father, Alice Fenton and her younger sister, Nancy, had shared the old family home; Gainsborough, in Tamworth Road, Coventry. The evening of Saturday March 18th, 1960 saw Nancy extremely concerned about her sister’s condition. Alice had been complaining for the last few weeks of headaches, numbness and feelings of nausea. Tonight was different though, the ever-bright Alice seemed easily confused, she was struggling to see and was completely numb on one side of her body, worst of all, a terrible unrelenting headache. Nancy, in despair, called an ambulance.
Alice was rushed into an intensive care ward at the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. Nancy sat in the waiting area having accompanied her sister and medics in the ambulance. After an hour’s wait, the duty matron…
