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 …
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 …
An Introduction to Wilhelmina Tobias An Introduction: Tobias, Wilhelmina Wilhelmina Tobias’s father, a ship worker, speaks from his upturned box to a small crowd outside his …
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. …
John Shinn (1837-1925): A Sketch of my Life and Times – Transcript Page 1- I have made a brief and rough sketch of my childhood and life to show some of the hardships and …
Norah Elliott (b.1903): Purpose & Audience Norah Elliott’s autobiography represents her hard-working Grandfather Pilch, her beloved Aunt Susan, her drowned father, her mentally ill mother, her adopted family …
