Guy Oates (1905 – 1987): Life and Labour – Part Two
You were lucky to have a job, so you worked hard to keep it, there being no unemployment pay in those days. …
Guy Oates (1905-1987): Education and Schooling- Part One
Being educated at my particular charity school, my learning was slow and poor, and my vocabulary is small- hence the small words …
Guy Oates (1905 – 1987): Life and Labour – Part Eight
On the 7th July 1948, Poor Law ceased, having been revoked by parliament. Out went public assistance institutions and hospitals, these now …
Guy Oates (1905 – 1987): Life and Labour – Part Four
Until people read something like this they will never know what went on when workhouses were in use, and the Poor Law …
Guy Oates (1905 – 1987): Life and Labour – Part Five
What a peculiar world this is. Here was I living in the prettiest institution, in beautiful surroundings, yet working and living with …
Guy Oates (1905-1987): Education and Schooling- Part Two
For the last two years this place had taught me all I knew, which wasn’t much. It had sustained me as best …
Guy Oates (1905-1987): Fun and Festivities – Part Two
‘Having been in contact with children all my life, I have had ample opportunity to see the way they play the games …
Guy Oates (1905-1987) The Years That Are Gone: An Introduction
‘The Years That Are Gone’ is a 750 page, eight-volume, memoir, which explores the history of the Oates family through the life …
Guy Oates (1905 – 1987): Researching Writing Lives
In my final remarks let me read you these few lines, written many years ago, in one of my more serious moments: …
Guy Oates (1905-1987): Home and Family – Part Two
In writing about my mother, it is now that I wish more than ever that I had been well educated and possessed …