By Margaret Robinson
Mary Harding nee Gidman
Saturday evening, 31st July 2021 a shining star left us to find her place in Heaven. Mary was born in Southlands Hospital, Shoreham on 22nd December 1947. The younger sister to Philip and Margaret. From the moment she was brought home she never lived anywhere but Arundel, starting in Bond Street, then 10 Mount Pleasant until she married Michael Harding in 1968 After a short while they moved to Wood View, Arundel and around 1978 moved to Arun Terrace, Ford Road. She always said she could not contemplate living anywhere else. Just after her 5th birthday Mary started at St. Philip’s school, her first teacher being Miss (Mary) Corbyn and under the headmastership of Mr Millard. A good number of her classmates at that time remained close friends throughout her life. Around this same time she joined the Arundel School of Dancing doing ballet and tap
Mary Harding and Mrs Vincent on the piano. At 11 it was time to move on – St. Philip Howard school at Barnham had just been completed and Mary was in the first intake. A fact of which she was very proud, to be in at the beginning.
dancing with Miss Davis as teacher
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