Biographical entry

Annie Lord (b. 1899): Biographical Entry

2:486 LORD, Annie, ‘My Life’, MS, pp.12 (c.2,750 words). Brunel University Library. Born around the turn of the century, probably in the district of …

Cecil George Harwood (1894 – 1983): Biographical Entry

1:309 HARWOOD, Cecil George, ‘Down Memory Lane’, TS, pp.104 (c.65,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born 9 Oct 1894. Father a gardener. Family …

Ellen Cooper (b. 1921-2000) Biographical Entry

Childhood in 1920s, 1930s, in Southend on Sea, Essex. Description of family home. Art and craft school in Southend. Memories of World …

Rosa Bell (b.1902) Biographical Entry

Born 1902. Youngest of 7 children. (4 boys, 3 girls) of a colliery clerk and dressmaker. Religious upbringing. Educated at village school. …

Frank George Marling (1863-1954): Biographical Entry

492 MARLING, Frank George, ‘Reminiscences’, TS, pp.22 (c.16,000 words). BruneI University Library. Born 7 Jan 1863 at Berkeley, Gloucester. Died 1954. Father …

Jack McQuoid (1910-1985): Biographical Entry

Jack McQuoid, “One Man in His Time: an autobiography”. Typescript. 328pp. plus 6 photocopies of newspaper cuttings etc. c. 1985. Part 1 …

Jack Vallance (b. 1914) – Biographical Entry

Vallance, Jack. ‘Jack of all Grades’, Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies, university of Brunel Library. Special Collection, 2:780. VALLANCE, Jack. ‘Jack …

Norah Elliott (b.1903)

Norah Elliott Born 2nd Sept 1903. Father, an insurance agent and later a coal miner, was drowned in 1913. Family then forced …

Currently browsing tag