Norah Fearon Knight (1910-2000): Purpose and Audience “I had hoped to end on a happy note, but while I have been writing, two more of the family have gone …
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 …
Hilda Ann Salusbury (1906-1993): Purpose and Audience At the beginning of Hilda’s memoir, she dedicates it to her two grandsons, Julian and Austen who were the children of her …
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 …
Mary Norreen Hart (b.1928): Food ‘I can never remember being hungry, but I am sure Mama and Dada often denied themselves so that Ron and I could …
Mary Norreen Hart (b.1928): Purpose and Audience ‘for all my family especially my dear husband Ron, our lovely daughters Lindsey and Rosslyn, our supportive sons-in-law Ted and Paul and …
Rosa Bell (b.1902): An Introduction Rosa Bell, born in 1902 as the youngest of seven children to Joseph and Elizabeth Holliday, lived a long and, unfortunately, not …
A.W Todd: The Apprentice Humble beginnings now for Todd. Whilst some of the previous blogs have looked at stops along the way in Todd’s memoir, it …
Introducing Jean Court (b.1923) ‘Mary my sister was a dainty neat child but I was just the opposite, a real scruff.’ (‘Living in the Lane’, p. …
