Lilian Westall (born 1893): Home and Family (Part 1) ‘If he was late – midnight, or after, he would be drunk’ (1) The family and the home, for Westall, are expressed …
George Gregory (b.1888): An Introduction ‘It cannot be said that I was privileged in any special way in the home in which I first saw the light …
Lilian Westall (born 1893): Home and Family (Part 2) After reading through Westall’s memoir I decided to look for her in national documents. I found Lilian Rose Westall, born April 2nd, …
Thomas Waddicor (b.1906): Home and Family Mother was finding it more than usually difficult to make ends meet’ (p. 4) ‘There were eight children in the family – …
Thomas R. Flintoff (1904-1994): Home & Family Thomas R. Flintoff was born into a working class family in 1904 and spent the whole of his life in Preston. He …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Habits, Belief and Culture ‘Reading a gardening article one day about 1977, I saw an article on the art of growing miniature trees. Ah, I thought, …
Cecil George Harwood (1894 – 1983): Education and Schooling ‘Schooldays were carefree and happy, we had little money, but we enjoyed life to the full’ (10). In ‘Down Memory Lane’, Cecil …
