Mary Bradbury (b. circa 1900): Life and Labour What is clear throughout Mary Bradbury’s memoir is the amount of labour she completes alongside her father and his workers. But Mary …
Allen Hammond (b.1894): Life & Labour II ‘You see. And at the End of the day, believe me, I was in a terrible state. You see. All my hands …
Rosa Bell (b.1902): Life & Labour “Yes we did experience years on the Dole. I remember waiting for my husband in a queue in Cumberland almost a mile …
Edward S. Humphries: Life and Labour Edward S. Humphries was a man who did not shy away from work. At the age of eleven his father insisted that …
Allen Hammond (b.1894): Life & Labour In the interview, Allen often converses in detail about his parents’ occupations, his father being a ‘seaman’ and his mother a ‘washerwoman’. …
Ellen Cooper (b.1921-2000) Life and labour: Part 1. ‘Dad would blow up balloons by mouth and tie them to a stick to sell in the High St, and he would …
John Britton 1771-1857: Life and Labour Life and Labour Upon finishing his schooling Britton spent a few years working apprenticeships, most notably a period in which he …
Maud Clarke (b. 1887): Life and Labour Part Two – Teaching Following on from one of my previous posts about the Life and Labour of Maud Clarke, I felt it only fitting to …
John Shinn (1837-1925): Life and Labour I have been through it all so that I can speak from experience, the life of the working in those days was …
Guy Oates (1905-1987): Life and Labour – Part One On the farm 1921 – 1922 I was still the same boy that I was when [I was] very young. A happy …
