A dyed-in-the wool pacifist, poet & Intellectual Margaret Cornish was poised to take up Scholarship to the Sorbonne University, but WII put an end to that hope. She was teaching in a London Primary School but refused to be evacuated and so was sacked. On a whim which had nothing to do with the war effort she went to work on the Canals. She learnt her trade and worked the canals until the end of the War. She married a Farmer from Dorset and had 3 children. The marriage failed after 12 years, and Margaret threw herself into teaching and bringing up her children. She was Headteacher of a village school for 10 years, 10 years in former colleges. She retired in 1975 to Southern Ireland, working as a crofter and producted a book of poetry. She also wrote three books Troubled Waters: memoirs of a Canal Boatwoman, Still Waters: Mystery Tales of the Canals, & Primary Schools: Small is Beautiful.
She was a Strong-willed no-nonsense kind of a lady and around 20008/9 she moved into the Piggeries at Low Farm Waldringfield, where she continued to write poetry in the form of Haiku. She went into the Seckford Almes Houses for a short while before she died in January 2011 aged 95
