Reminiscences February 1996
Marion Barlow, aged 82 and Hilda Whitehead, aged 80.
I should imagine we are among the few left, who go back so far. We were born in the old stone house, which is attached to the old Ironworks. It was then a sweet shop, where our father made dinners for the workmen at the forge, but he died in the First World War and our mother was left with two young children.
The...
FREEMAN, BOB
Reminiscences July 2000
Bob Freeman, aged 80.
I was born on the 15th December 1919. This was just twelve months after the end of the Great War or World War I. It became necessary later on to differentiate between World War I and the second terrible conflict now known as World War II.
My father and mother both worked in a munitions factory during the first word war. Father was a skilled...
