Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Biographical Entry 783 VERE, Percy [pseud. of H.V. SMITH], ‘The Autobiography of a Working Man’, TS, pp.10 (c.6,500 words). Brunel University Library. Born …
Edward S. Humphries: Life and Labour Edward S. Humphries was a man who did not shy away from work. At the age of eleven his father insisted that …
Isaac Gordon (b.1927): Life and Labour, part one “It must be that they get cheap labour from Jamaica, and if you’re any trouble they send you back.” (13) Isaac …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Life and Labour The firm I was working for closed down, therefore I was out of work for the first 12 weeks of married life. …
Martha Martin (b.1871): Life & Labour [3/3] and as I look back I think that it is a great mistake to get married young and am always glad that …
Minnie Frisby (b. 1877): Life and Labour Alongside childhood, working life and labour is a significant theme in Memories. After discovering Minnie’s maiden name through her marriage on Ancestry …
Home & Family: Harold Heslop, 1898-1983. Given the impressive length of Harold Heslop’s memoir, and the clarity and detail in which he writes about ‘life beneath the fields,’ …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913) Childhood and Education ‘My father had eight rows of allotments, and grew chrysanthemums and mint. My eldest sister and I used to have to go …
Florence Anne Cooter (1912-2004): War and Memory Part One Florence witnessed and lived through the effects of two world wars. Memories of war began early in Florence’s life as a child …
May Jones: Life and Labour “Life was not all play, from a very early age mother taught us how to work and we never questioned out little …
