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 …
Walter John Eugene Elliott (1890- 1977): Home and Family
Walter’s memoirs focus on his life up until the Armistice of The Great War, when he was 28. Readers are therefore given …
Thomas McLauchlan (1888-1979): Home and Family
“These writings would not be complete if I did not something about the family. We are a united family, not only by …
Walter John Eugene Elliott (1890- 1977): Fun and Festivities
‘What did it matter if there were a few blisters on the fingers and sparks in the eyes, it was all part …
Frank George Marling (1863-1954): Reading and Writing
Frank mentions reading a few times throughout his memoirs. He does not write about great novels or poems that he enjoyed, like Dora …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Reading and (Life) Writing
Percy does not focus on the reading or writing very much at all within his memoir , similarly to Edward S. Humphries. …
May Jones (b.1893): An Introduction
“I remember, I remember…” May Jones was born in 1893 in the small country village of Broken Cross near Macclesfield. She was …
Florence Anne Cooter (1912-2004): Education and Schooling
Florence’s education is not a prominent theme in her memoir ‘Seventh Child’ and we are barely given an insight into her own …
“Having preserved these printed papers I will not further write of those days but rather will begin about the time I left school in July, 1846, going first as errand boy to Mr. Robert Thornely becoming afterwards his apprentice in Silk Hat Finishing on October 1st, 1847.†(Ashley p.1).
“My Father, at that time and ever afterwards, declared that he paid the account in the office at the mills, but as the receipts could not be produced a distress was put in the house and the furniture sold- at least so much as to meet the miller’s claim†(Ashley p.2)
John Urie (b. 1820) Leisure and Recreation
We’ve touched on John’s various pastimes and hobbies in other posts. From his love of theatre to photography, John does tend to …