Marion Owen (b. 1909): Life and Labour Marion felt extremely unprepared for life outside of education as she felt her artistic talents were all she had to offer. However, …
Margaret Watson b.1907: Life and Labour, Part 2. As we learned in the first part of this blog post, through the hard work of her father, Margaret learned the importance …
Margaret Watson b.1907: Life and Labour, Part 1. Being born into a working-class family, Margaret Watson’s life as a labourer was set in stone. With her mother dying when she …
Ellen Cooper (b. 1921-2000) Life and Labour: Part 2 ‘Now I was earning a wage, I do not remember how much, but it helped out at home and compensated a little …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) Life and Labour part 2 “I didn’t mind going out to work. It was just that girls were so inferior to boys. They were the breadwinners and …
Annie Lord (b.1899): Life and Labour – Part One “…my first job was in service 10/- a week to start up at six in the morning and on the go [un]till …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) Life and Labour part 1 “What do the working class want with education? They have only to work.” For many of those who lived in West Melton, …
Lorna Kite (b. 1916): Life and Labour. From the very beginning of Lorna’s memoir of nursing during WW2, the central focus is on her duty: ‘My work always came …
John Sawyer (b 1914) : Life and Labour (Part 1/2) John filled his life (or the first 60 years of his life) with various jobs, all centred around the same subject: law. …
Annie Lord (b.1899): Life and Labour – Part Two “… it was hard work But we got good food and that was the main thing those days, I can Rem[em]ber the …
