Great-grandmother has received a Christmas card from German pen pal for 76 years An 88-year-old great-grandmother still receives a Christmas card every year from the German pen pal she has been writing to since she was 12.
Sylvia Perkins, from Bermondsey, south-east London, started writing to Lisa Kull in Germany in 1948, while attending Monnow Road Girls’ School, as part of a school exchange after the Second World War.
Mrs Perkins said although the school exercise was initiated as a result of the war, she and Mrs Kull never spoke about it.
Despite never speaking on the phone or meeting in person, they have shared life updates and maintained the tradition of sending Christmas cards for the last 76 years.
Mrs Perkins said she was the only one in her class who continued to write letters.
