| Title | Elsie Child |
| Date | c1900s |
| Location | Yeadon |
| Photo ID | B407 |
| Comment | Mrs Child stands in a shop doorway on Sandy Way. In the shop window is a variety of kitchenware including bun tins, jelly moulds, tea pots and bowls. She must have had a family, on the back of the image she is referred to as mother. |
Elsie Mabel Child was born on March 16th 1891, one of the daughters of James Herbert (or sometimes vice versa on records) Child and his wife Ellen.
In 1911, James was registered as a shopkeeper and registered hawker, Elsie a twenty-year-old paper bag maker and they lived in 1 Wood’s Yard – which is seen on the photograph.
In 1939, she was still single and living with her widowed mother Ellen and sister Carrie in Abbey Lane. Elsie died in 1979 aged eighty-eight.
Additional research by Helen M.
7 December 2022
Editor’s Note: From Helen’s research it is possible that the woman in these images is in fact Ellen Child, mother of Elsie Child. Fascinating isn’t it. JB. 8 Dec 22.
B416 – Elsie Child, c1900s.
Elsie Child – c1900s
Elsie Child on Sandy Way.
C076 – Elsie Child, c1900s.
Elsie Child – c1900s
Mrs Elsie Child stands in the doorway of her shop on Sandy Way.
Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw. 20 June 2022.
Last updated: 8 December 2022 – Additional text.
