Doris Hunt (1900) : Purpose and Audience Doris Hunt starts her memoirs off in a very normal fashion, telling us her date and place of birth, ‘I was born …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Purpose & Audience ‘If I have a message at all it is that one should accept life’s challenges, no matter what form they take: the …
Frank Prevett (b.1904): Life and Labour Part One Despite naming his memoir ‘Memoirs of a Railwayman’, Frank initially had no interest in working on the railway. Frank writes that ‘I …
Frank Prevett (b.1904): An Introduction Frank Prevett’s memoir entitled ‘Memoirs of a Railwayman’ is a thorough account of his life working on the railway through his numerous …
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): 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 …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Education and Schooling. ‘No desks, no benches, no blackboard, and of, course, no standards. Hardly possible with only two pupils in the class’ (26). Mary …
Guy Oates (1905-1987): Fun and Festivities – Part One Had I have carried on to-day as I did then, I would be placed in the Local Authority as a child out …
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 …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): An Introduction. ‘Church was like home – familiar, accepted, and unconsciously loved.’ (40) Born on the 8th September 1906 in Far Headingley, Leeds, Mary …
