May Jones: Life and Labour “Life was not all play, from a very early age mother taught us how to work and we never questioned out little …
Jean Court: Life and Labour ‘All the ironing, washing up and pastry making were done on the wooden kitchen table, scrubbed every day until it was almost …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): Life and Labour ‘we had a dreadful over looker she was really frightening, we were not allowed to talk to the girls who sat next …
Dorothy Squires (b.1897): Life and Labour Dorothy left school at 13 years old to start work; after illness, and missing out on taking the “11 plus” (6). (See …
C.V. Horner (1897–1980): Life and Labour Much of C.V. Horner’s life revolves around gamekeeping, so much so that an entire chapter of his memoir is dedicated to the …
Stephen Forsdick (b. 1835): Life and Labour I have seen more of Pioneer life than falls to the average man. I think I have seen every phase of it. …
Ruth Cox (1890): Life and Labour ‘We used to meet our pals, lads and lasses going back to work through Tinkers passage and had many happy times together’ …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Life and Labour (Part Two) John Edmonds’ memoir, ‘The Lean Years’, is set mainly during the interwar period. As a result, much of John’s working life is …
Thomas McLauchlan (1888-1979): Life and Labour (part 2) In this second section of the Life and Labour blog, we will be exploring Thomas’s other work responsibilities outside of the mining …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Life and Labour (Part One) Whilst many working-class autobiographers write centrally about the struggles of working life, talk of labour is ominously absent in John Edmonds’ …
