Dorothy Eyre first moved to Stanlow Island with her family when she was eight years old.
Her childhood growing up on the island resembles something from the pages of a children's book, filled with picnics and adventures. Stanlow Island is located just off Ellesmere Port in the River Mersey and it is cut off from the mainland by the Manchester Ship Canal.
Stanlow was once home to a community of monks for hundreds of years, and later became home to officers from the Manchester Ship Canal Police force and their families. The small community, which also included workers from Stanlow refinery, lived on the island up until the 1980s.
