My friend Erika Brooke, who has died aged 95, travelled to Britain from Czechoslovakia in 1946 and lived in the UK for the rest of her life, working mainly as a seamstress.
Her last job before retirement was as supervisor of the sewing room at Poole general hospital in Dorset, which, among other things, made privacy curtains for patients and altered nurses’ uniforms and doctors’ white coats.
