Mabel Harrison – Yeadon, 1930s to 1950s
The 1930s brought better conditions for working people, many council houses were built and people had bathrooms and electric light for the first time.
Mabel Harrison, Deceased – 2008
She left at 14 and reluctantly went to work in the local mills, later she worked at Crompton Parkinson’s, Carter and Parkers and Silver Cross.
Margaret Doreen Haigh (Peggy), 1920 – 2013
There’s a story to tell in every decade of her life – from being bullied at school, seeing death at first hand in the Land Army days, …
Margaret Kilburn, nee Hardy Story – 1927
…she went to Aireborough Grammar School until she was 16 when she left and started at Bingley …
My Childhood Memories, John Denison, 1926 – 1939 (1)
The top photo is John aged Two and a half and this photo is John aged four …
My Childhood Memories, John Denison, 1926 – 1939 (2)
The photograph is John aged about 8 with his parents and sister at Morecambe.
My Childhood Memories, John Denison, 1926 – 1939 (3)
On the was my sister and I received our first ‘sex education’ lesson when we passed a field where a cow was giving birth.
My Childhood Memories, John Denison, 1926 – 1939 (4)
Very early on, by rote, we learned our ‘times table’ up to 12x, I think that if you asked any of my generation a ‘times by’ question they would answer it instantly.
My Childhood Memories, John Denison, 1926 – 1939 (6)
Those who could went swimming here, not for me, I could not swim.
My Childhood Memories, John Denison, 1926 – 1939 (7)
No vacuum cleaners then for general cleaning and the stone cellar steps and floors were a down on the knees job with a scrubbing brush.
My Childhood Memories, John Denison, 1926 – 1939 (8)
Mam was religious quite the opposite to Dad even receiving regular visits from the Rev. Tindall.
