Guy Oates (1905-1987): Education and Schooling- Part Three
I was now a frightned [frightened] boy, and I felt this was [not] the end but the beginning of more trouble’ (Oates, …
Guy Oates (1905 – 1987): Education and Schooling- Part Four
Was this his last and final attempt to break me. How could any human being so cruel. If this was my school …
Margaret Watson (b.1907) Habits, Culture and Belief
As Margaret’s memoir mainly discusses the importance of her work and family life, the cultural activities she remembers engaging in are almost …
Norah Elliott (b.1903)
Norah Elliott Born 2nd Sept 1903. Father, an insurance agent and later a coal miner, was drowned in 1913. Family then forced …
Jessie Ravenna Sharman (b. 1892): Habits, Culture & Belief
Little is revealed entailing Jessie Sharman’s religious beliefs in her memoir, although she does make the point that she was christened Jessie …
Syd Metcalfe (B. 1910): Education & Schooling
“We were children until the day we left school.” Syd Metcalfe, ‘One Speck of Humanity’ There is a sense that Metcalfe did …