All the World’s a Stage – Eric Highton
Eric Highton was born on 20th April 1925 at No 2, Elm Street, Borrowash. It is still his home, although the interior has undergone some necessary 20th century refinements to heating and water systems.
Jan
14
Eric Highton was born on 20th April 1925 at No 2, Elm Street, Borrowash. It is still his home, although the interior has undergone some necessary 20th century refinements to heating and water systems.
Jan
13
Christine Wallwork contacted Unexamined Lives in response to our request (published in The Derby Telegraph) for information about working conditions at the former Barron’s Nurseries.
Barron’s was special to Christine for reasons beyond the usual parameters of job and income because it marked the beginning and in a different way, the conclusion, of her father’s working life.
Jan
12
As the 20th century advanced; working outside the home assumed increasing importance in a woman’s quest for an acceptable standard of living as well as a key factor in basic economic survival.
Phyllis Wymer worked as a welder in the years following the outbreak of the Second World War to sustain her single-parent family after the desertion of her husband and the premature death of a partner.
Jan
10
Tom Matchett retired as Food Division Deputy Controller of the Plymouth Co-operative Society in June 1989
It was a key role; reporting to the Controller on the operation of over 60 Grocery; Butchery and Greengrocery retail outlets; a Food Distribution Centre; Butchery Warehouse; Small Goods Factory and Dairy Department:
Jan
9
Women born in the first part of the 20th century envisaged futures for themselves that would have struck a chord with both their 19th century grandmothers and 21st century granddaughters.
Ann Smith was born in 1938 at Derby’s Nightingale Road Maternity Hospital and is unequivocal about her goals and aspirations:
Jan
8
Living in a village is a moveable feast. For some, raising a family away from the sound and fury of the city is only sustainable if the front door is kept firmly closed to all but invited guests.
Others find much to admire in the camaraderie to be encountered in the vibrant communities of fictional villages such as Raveloe, Lark Rise and Cranford.
Jan
8
If Mary Beilby, (who died on 20th September, 2012 at the Queen’s Medical Centre) had been born in the 16th century, she would have slotted perfectly into a Renaissance world where politics and literature rubbed shoulders with exploration; art and science.
Jan
7
Sadly, the 1914-18 war was not the war to end all wars, and during the course of the 20thcentury, ceremonies at the Cenotaph and memorial services in villages, towns and cities throughout the United Kingdom widened to encompass the Second World War; the Falklands War and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Jan
6
Schooldays are the best days of your life’ is a familiar phrase and one with about as much credibility as ‘eating fish gives you brains’ or ‘ carrots will make you see in the dark’.
But the response to my article about Westernmere School (Derby Telegraph Bygones; January 17th 2011) makes me think that whoever dreamed it up was on to something!
Jan
5
Bine and Nancy Payne’s wedding photograph in the Ockbrook of 1938, symbolises many aspects of a century caught between modernism and the dead hand of Victorian Britain.
The couple married when the country teetered on the brink of World Ward Two and their children, Roger and Angela were war babies.