Thomas Raymont (1864-1949): Home and Family ‘I was born and brought up in Tavistock, a dear old town charmingly situated on a river which varied from a tiny …
Thomas Raymont (1864-1949): Home and Family Continued In my previous post regarding Thomas Raymont’s home and family life I concentrated on the aspects of his childhood that he divulged …
Annie Lord (b.1899): Home and Family – Part Two Adulthood “… Real[l]y my life was a misery. Beaten and knocked about for nothing at all.” Lord, p:3 In contrast to her …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904): Home and Family “The family had closed ranks. At last we were a tribe united against all else.” Bessie Wallis’s account of her younger years …
Annie Lord (b. 1899): Home and Family – Part One Childhood “[We] use[d] to have a good time dressing up making all our own amusement and Believe me we use[d] to thour[ough]ly …
Ken Hayter (b. 1940) Home & Family (2/2) ‘Until the war ended, there were just the three of us: Mam, Charlie and me. There was the occasional reference to someone …
Ken Hayter (b. 1940): Home & Family (1/2) “This then was my immediate family: Mam, Charlie, someone called Dad and me. We lived in No. 43 Tagus Street, off Lodge …
Pauline Wiltshire: Family life in Jamaica Pauline’s story is marked by her honest approach and so I wanted to do the same in telling her story. It’s clear …
Pauline Wiltshire: Family life in England “If there is love and strength in the home and we give out children an identity they will be better off.” (Wiltshire, …
Kathleen M Lindley (b.1920): Home and Family, Part 2. ‘The mound of earth looked very small to cover such a big man. It meant nothing to me, his mortal remains might …
