Well, Carol Park worked at Ascombe for the two terms to July 1976. We heard from Mrs. Regan, the caretaker, and the lady who talked to us first I think over the video link. She had the room next to Carol Park's room at the school. They talked and became friendly. She described Carol Park as a happy and positive person. She said she could not help with evidence about inner troubles because she did not have that sort of relationship.
Mr. Moffatt, another teacher at the school, described her as a committed teacher who enjoyed her job and was good at it.
Mrs. Sabina Dixon, the Park's neighbour at Leece saw Gordon and Carol as she said occasionally in this period. Her son used to play with Jeremy Park. She last saw the two of them together socially in February of 1976, on an occasion when she had gone to fetch her son back from one of these play events. She described Mr. Park on that occasion as being rather patronising about some vacuum cleaner incident which did not work, but she did not give any great detail about that.
I do not think we heard any more about that academic year until the Summer. Just going back to Mr. Walker, the guest house proprietor, he saw Carol apparently at a school athletics event in Ulverston. He found out she was working at Ascombe and that she had been there for a couple of terms. She told Mr. Walker that she had intended to speak to Mrs. Walker for the last six to eight months and still wanted to get in touch. She appeared very friendly but rather guilty about not having been in touch with them since.