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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. …

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 …

Robert Ward (B. 1097): Education and Schooling

The theme of Education and Schooling is very prominent in Robert Ward’s ‘A Lancashire Childhood’, and arguably could be the main theme’. …

Robert Ward (B. 1907): Transcript

A Lancashire Childhood My parents and I went to live in Whittle Street, Featherstall, almost seventy years ago, when I was five. …

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 …

Introducing Robert Ward (B.1907)

“The everyday background to my life consisted of our house and the shops, houses and pubs in the Featherstall area” (8) Robert …

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 …

John Robinson (b. circa 1850): Biographical Entry

923 ROBINSON, John. ‘A Butler’s View of Man-Service’, The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 31. January – June, 1892. Extract in J. Burnett (ed.), …

Wilfred Middlebrook (b.1899-): Biographical Entry

527 MIDDLEBROOK, Wilfred, ‘Trumpet Voluntary’, MS, pp. 687 (c.126,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born 18 Dec 1899 in Blackburn. Both parents worked …

Nora Hampton (1895-1918): Biographical Entry

3:0068 HAMPTON, Nora, ‘Memories of Baptist End, Netherton, Dudley in the period 1895-1918’, TS, pp.63 (c.26,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born 21 Nov …

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