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Local and Family History Research Guides

Voices from the Past A catalogue of published and unpublished autobiographical material held at Leeds Central

Library. These pamphlets and short books contain the memories of Leeds and Yorkshire

working-class people during the 20th-century, usually in their own words.

Our Research Guides list some of the most useful, interesting and unique items in Local and Family History at Leeds Central Library. Many others are listed in our online and card catalogues. See secretlibraryleeds.net/research-collection-guides for more research guides.

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ABERFORD

Title: Aberford in Times Past: Volume One (1983)

Author: A.G. Bennett, T. Hayton, & K. Hewitt.

Period covered: 1900-1950

Topics covered: Shopping, townscape, transport, war

48p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP ABE 942

ADEL Title: Just An Ordinary Life: Memories of Adel and Cookridge: 1889-1936 (1984)

Author: Harry Mawson and Don Cole


Topics covered: Education, family, housing, transport, war

40p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP AD 32 (942)

ALLERTON BYWATER Title: Allerton Bywater: As Time Goes By (1995)

Author: Allerton Bywater Community Resource Group

Period covered: 1910–1950

Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, games, health, housing, shopping, transport, war, work

88p, illustrated

Shelfmark: L ALL 942

Title: Allerton Bywater: On The Streets Where You Live (2005)

Author: Allerton Bywater Community Resource group


Topics covered: Education, war, work

101p, illustrated

Shelfmark: L ALL 942

Title: The Retraining of a Redundant Workforce: A Local Study (1993)

Author: Colin Cowell


Topics covered: Education, industry, work

11p

Shelfmark: LQP ALL 331

[A study prepared for a Northern College course, and including the author’s

recollections of retraining schemes following a pit closure]

ARMLEY Title: Armley Through the Ages: Fifteen Short Articles on Armley History (1983)

Author: Armley Society

Period covered: [various]

Topics covered: Townscape, transport

32p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP ARM 942

Title: The Armley Album (1980)

Author: Iris Cole (ed.)

Period covered: [various]

Topics covered: Education, Entertainment, Family Health Housing Shopping Townscape

Transport Work

67p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP ARM 942

Title: Armley Baths: An Asset to the Community (2010)

Author: Sheila Gaunt and David Thornton (for Wortley Local History Group)


Topics covered: Entertainment, family, health

32p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP ARMLEY 797

Title: Memories in the Fog: Growing up at 7 Butts View (2017)

Author: David Ramsden

Period Covered: 1950s

Topics covered: Education, Childhood, Housing, Family,

22p,

Shelfmark: LQP B RAM

Title: The Co-op Flour Lad

Author: Jack Thornton


Topics covered: Work, Shopping, War

5p

Shelfmark: LQP B THO

[Details work as a flour boy on Whingate Road]

THE BANK (East Leeds) Title: Memories of our East Leeds (2007)

Author: Peter Hawkridge and Graham Wood


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, transport, war, work

52p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP BAN 942

Title: Further Memories of our East Leeds: Another Collection of Memories Related by the People

Living in the Area in the 30s, 40s, 50s (no date, possibly 2007)

Author: Peter Hawkridge and Graham Wood


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, transport, war, work

52p, illustrated


Title: Memories of The Bank and East End Park (2001)

Author: Alma Radcliffe for the East Leeds Historical Society


Topics covered: Education, family, townscape, work, war

16p, illustrated


Title: My Childhood Days: Recollections of Childhood in the late 1930’s in Leeds (no date)

Author: ‘Bill’


Topics covered: Games

13p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP B BIL

BARWICK Title: Bygone Barwick: a Unique Collection of Photographs of Village Life in Barwick-in-Elmet

(1986)

Author: Barwick-in-Elmet Historical Society


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, townscape, transport, work, youth

48p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP BAR 942

BEESTON Title: Beeston: Rediscovered Heritage (1992)

Author: Beeston Local History Society


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, housing, shopping, townscape, work, war

64p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP BEE 942

Title: Beeston: Pages from our Past (1990)

Author: Beeston Local History Society


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, health

34p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP B392 (942)

Title: Memories of Old Beeston (1977)

Author: A. Benge


Topics covered: Townscape, work

1p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP B3392 (942)

[Mainly recollections of the author’s father working as a cobbler]

Title: Working for Moorhouse’s: 1942-54 (2000)

Author: John Green


Topics covered: Industry, work

73p

Shelfmark: LQP BEE 338

[“a personal memoir [of working] in a factory in the c.20th.”]

Title: Beeston Days (1991)

Author: M. Payne and F. Goddard, for the Beeston Local History Society


Topic covered: Education, entertainment, family, townscape, war, work

80p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP BEE 920

Title: Beeston Near Leeds (1983)

Author: Keith Richards, for the Beeston Local History Project


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, townscape, transport, work, war

32p, illustrated


Title: Memories of Leeds (2014)

Author: John Green

Period covered: 1930s-1950

Topics covered: Education, war, music

32p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP B GRE

[Cockburn School, evacuation]

BELLE ISLE Title: Hatches, Matches and Dispatches in Belle Isle (1991)

Author: Centre Point Writing Group


Topics covered: Entertainment, family, health, youth

47p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP BEL 942

BRAMLEY Title: Bramley Bygones (1987)

Author: Bramley History Society

Period covered: [Various, mainly early 20th-century]

Topics covered: Entertainment, family, shopping, war

58p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP BRA 942

Title: Yards ‘n’ Yards of Bramley (1993)

Author: Bramley History Society


Topics covered: Entertainment, housing, shopping, townscape

56p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP BRA (942)

Title: Recollections of Bramley Band (1985)

Author: Pauline Kirk (ed.)


Topics covered: Entertainment

16p, illustrated


Title: Bramley: The Village that Disappeared (1984)

Author: Pauline Kirk (ed.)


Topics covered: Family, education, entertainment, townscape, war, work

68p, illustrated


Title: Bradley Carnival Remembered (1997)

Author: Ann Marsden


Topics covered: Entertainment, leisure

28p, illustrated

BURLEY Title: Seems Like Yesterday: Burley Oral History Group (1995)

Author: Sharon Astbury and Isobel Baylis


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, housing, townscape, transport, war

76p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP BUR 942

Title: A Walk Down Beckett Street: 1926-1932 (2006)

Author: D. Jackson


Topics covered: Shopping, townscape

20p, illustrated


Title: Life Around St Stephen School (1967)

Author: D. Jackson

Period Covered: [various]

Topics covered: Education, family, health, shopping, townscape

22p, illustrated


Title: A Schoolboy’s View of World War II ( 2010 )

Author: Tony Michell

Period Covered: 1940 , 1944

Topics covered: Evacuation to Leeds ( p,12-15,p25-27 ), family, war

33p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP B MIT

[covers the author’s evacuation to Leeds 1940., unclear how long, approx. 1 year. Returned

1944, when it appears he visited Leeds and Normanton..]

Title: Early Burley (1992)

Author: Alan McDonald for Burley Local History Group

Period Covered: 1900-1990

Topics covered: Townscape, education, shops, entertainment, housing, transport, war, youth

63p, illustrated


Title: 130, Burley Road: Childhood Memories (2008)

Author: Rosalie Batty, nee Hoyle (ed., George Wigglesworth)

Period Covered: [not stated, but c.1900-1939]

Topics covered: Entertainment, family, games, housing, youth

28p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP B HOY

CALVERLEY

Title: A West Riding Childhood (1967)

Author: J.A. Harrison


Topics covered: Education, Family, Housing, Townscape Work

129p, with maps

Shelfmark: LQ CAL 942

[A picture of life in the village of Calverley between 1902-1908]

Title: Calverley in The 1920’s

Author: Alan Grimshaw


Topics covered: Family, education, games, transport, entertainment, holidays

25p, family photos, house floorplans

Shelfmark: LQP B GRI

[ includes description of an average week at No. 20 Salisbury Street]

CHAPELTOWN

Title: When Our Ship Comes In: Black Women Talk (1992)

Author: Chapeltown Black Women Writer’s Group


Topics covered: Education, family, population

71p, illustrated

Shelfmark: L CHA 305

Title: Chapeltown and its Jews (2003)

Author: Murray Freeman


Topics covered: Family, population, townscape, youth

44p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP CHA 305.8

Title: Where’s the Water Gone? A Chapeltown Soap Opera: The Story of the Chapeltown

Laundry Co-Operative (1999)

Author: Alan Walker (ed.)


Topics covered: Family, population, work

104p, illustrated

Shelfmark: L CHA 381

[“We want to tell you our story of how …a group of Black women… came together in a workers’

cooperative to provide laundry services to our community.”]

Title: Voices of Chapeltown (1980s)

Author: [Various]


Topics covered: Education, family, population

Numerous pages, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQ CHA 820

[Miscellaneous journals, which include personal recollections, prose and poetry]

Title: Growing Up Black in Leeds (nd.)

Author: Asher Hoyles

Period Covered: 1960s-1970s

Topics covered: Race, Family, education, religion,

2p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP B HOY

[Experience of growing up in Chapletown until the age of 16]

CITY CENTRE

Title: My Life in the Fashion Trade (no date)

Author: Molly A. Kean

Period Covered: 1944—1995

Topics covered: Shopping, work

11p

Shelfmark: LP B KEA

COOKRIDGE

Title: The Recollections of the Childhood of Malcolm Glegg (2008)

Author: Malcolm Glegg and Alma Wigglesworth (ed., George Wigglesworth)


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, housing, war, youth

28p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP B GLE

Title: Rylstone, Tinshill Lane, Cookridge ( 2008 )

Author: George Wigglesworth ed.

Period covered: 1920’s-1940’s

Topics covered: family, work, townscape, youth, education

32p

Shelfmark: LP B WIG

[Malcolm’s reminiscences of Tinshill, Else’s recollections about Alma, memories from George and

Margaret.]

COLLINGHAM

Title: Memories of Railways at Collingham Bridge (1995)

Author: Sydney Martin


Topics covered: Family, transport, war

8p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP COL 385

[Reminiscences of an 80-year old railway-man]

COLTON

Title: Colton in Leeds Remembered: 1947-1951 (2012)

Author: Harry Cockerham


Topics covered: Education, family, townscape, transport

34p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP COL 942

Title: Colton Institute: 1896-1984 (1984)

Author: Margaret Surestall


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family

8p

Shelfmark: LP C722 (367)

[Brief reminiscences from page 5, covering education & dances - mainly from 1940s]

CROSS GATES Title: The Living History Project: Recording Memories for Future Generations (2009)

Author: Jane Robinson


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, war, work

20p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP CRO 920

EAST LEEDS

Title: More Memories of our East Leeds: A Collection of Stories Related by People Living in the

Area During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s (2011)

Author: Graham Hawkridge & Pam Wright


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, shopping, townscape, war, work

61p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP EAS 942

EAST KESWICK Title: East Keswick Memories (2011)

Author: Jean Harris (nee Moscrop)


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, youth, war, work

28p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP B GLE

FARNLEY

Title: A Portrait of Farnley (1988)

Author: Farnley Local History Group


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, townscape, transport

59p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP F236 (942)

[Chapter 8 includes memories of Farnley residents]

Title: Stonebridge Mills (2001)

Author: Wortley Local History Group


Topics covered: Family, work

34p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP FAR 942

[page 29 includes memories of working in the Mill]

Title: Farnley Oh Farnley: Voices From Beyond (nd.)

Author: Ken Cooper

Period Covered: Various

Topics covered: Entertainment, transport

11p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP B COO

[Almost certainly a parody, in the style of a ‘zine]

GARFORTH

Title: Garforth at War: 1935-45 (1989)

Author: Garforth Historical Society


Topics covered: Family, education, work, war

52p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP G18 (942)

[Contains personal reminiscences}

Title: Transcripts of Recorded Interviews with Garforth Residents (1978)



Topics covered: Education, family, games, shopping, townscape, work

11p

Shelfmark: LQ GAR 942

Title: A Short History of Garforth (1980)


Period Covered: Mainly 1940s

Topics covered: Education. entertainment, family, war

77p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP G18 (942)

[Chapter 10: Memories of Old Garforth – includes personal material and life stories, especially

focusing on WW2]

GILDERSOME

Title: Gildersome — Do You Remember? (1994)

Author: [Various]


Topics covered: Family, housing

51p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP GIL 942

[See pages 40-42 for a recollection of the 1920s through the eyes of a child]

GIPTON

Title: North Farm Middle School: Writing, 1983 (1983)

Author: Various


Topics covered: Education, family

98p

Shelfmark: LQ G44 (373)

[Writing by pupils and staff recounting experiences, perceptions and

imaginary stories]

HAREHILLS

Title: LS8: People Building Stories (2005)

Author: [Various]


Topics covered: Family, housing, townscape, work

31p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP HAR 914

[Brief interviews with current Harehills residents]

Title: Memories of Harehills (2001)

Author: Blakeley, Barbara

Period Covered: 1930, 1940,

Topics covered: education, entertainment, family, housing, war, work

12p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP HAR 942

HEADINGLEY

Title: Royal Park/Queens Road School Centenary (1992)

Author: Royal Park Middle School


Topics covered: Education, Family

64p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP HEA 372

[Recollections of past and present pupils and staff]

HOLBECK

Title: Another Line from Leeds: With Special Reference to Holbeck, 1914-1945 (1989)

Author: Kathy Miller


Topics covered: Education, family, games, health, war, work

64p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQ HOL 942

Title: ‘Swaps’ Holbeck (2001)

Author: Steve Truelove


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, health, housing, shopping, townscape,

transport , work, youth

71p, illustrated

Shelfmark: L HOL 942

HORSFORTH

Title: The Towns’ School: 100-years of Elementary Education: National St Margaret’s (1980)

Author: David V. Thomas


Topics covered: Education

80p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP H 787 (372)

[Reminiscences of old pupils on pages 68-71]

HUNSLET Title: An Apprentice at McLaren’s:1916-1920 (1976)

Author: S.R. Fowler


Topics covered: Transport, war, work

36p

Shelfmark: LP HUN 331

Title: Childhood Memories of Hunslet (1989)

Author: Carrie Stocks


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, housing, shopping, townscape, transport, war,

work, youth

36p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP H91 (942)

Title: Hunslet Baptist Church: 1837-2012 (2012)

Author: Gill Knowles


Topics covered: Education, family, housing, war work

20p, illustrated


[Early recollections by Frank Rowley on pages 8-14]

Title: A Hunslet Story: Commemorating 125-years of the Sisters of Mercy in St. Joseph’s Parish

(2004)

Author: Patsy Toher and Ellen McGrath


Topics covered: Education, family, housing, youth

66p, illustrated


[Contains recollections of Priests, Nuns and Parishioners]

KIRKSTALL

Title: Kirkstall, As I Knew It: 1896-1914

Author: Sydney H. Pickering


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, work

12p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP K 636 (942)

Title: Spanish Wine, Kirkstall Vintage (1998)

Author: Kirkstall Oral History Group


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, games, health, war, work, youth

100p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP KIR 942

Title: A Kirkstall Childhood (2002)

Author: Hazel. M. Poulter


Topics covered: Family, Housing, Shopping, Church, Transport

10p, illustrated with Kirkstall Parish magazine & adverts

Shelfmark: LQP B POU

KNOSTROP

Title: Won’t Someone Please Remember the Knowles Family of Knostrop? (no date)

Author: Unknown


Topics covered: Family, War, housing

44p, illustrated with family photos

Shelfmark: LQP B KNO

[Detailed account of the Knowles family and their lives]

LITTLE LONDON

Title: A Little Bit of History: Words and Photos from Little London Residents, Past and Present

(2015)

Author: Andrew Coley and Hannah Carey, eds.


Topics covered: Education, family, housing, games, population, work

68p, illustrated

Shelfmark: L LIT 942

[“to discover, rediscover and share aspects of the history, through the experiences of residents and former residents.”]

MEANWOOD

Title: Pages From My Scrapbook of Meanwood (2002)

Author: Jean Barker


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, housing, townscape, war

48p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP MEA 942

[Recollections and reminiscences]

Title: Meanwood in the 1920s (1975)

Author: Mary Henderson


Topics covered: Family, townscape

6p

Shelfmark: LQP M 462 (942)

[Brief recollections of childhood in Meanwood]

MICKLEFIELD

Title: Sweet Dreams of Yesteryear: My Micklefield (2010)

Author: Denis Best

Period Covered: 1950- 1990

Topics covered: Education, family, games, work

163p, illustrated

Shelfmark: L MIC 942

[Personal memories from page 77]

MIDDLETON

Title: Middleton Against Unemployment Group Newspaper (1991)

Author: [Various]


Topics covered: Education, work

4p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP M584 (331)

[Brief articles, including critique of the YOPS scheme]

Title: Backward Glances (1989)

Author: Jeanne Hopley, ed.

Period Covered: [Various, mainly early and mid-20th-century]

Topics covered: Education, family, housing, townscape, work, war

42p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP M 584 (942)

[Reminiscences from local people in a Further Education Study group]

MORLEY

Title: Don’t Go Down the Mine, Dad (2000)

Author: David A Reekie


Topics covered: Mining, War

46p, illustrated

Shelfmark: L QP BREE

[Talks about being a Bevin Boy, Experience of Mines]

NEW WORTLEY

Title: Producing a Book: How and Why (1985)

Author: New Wortley Local History Group

Period Covered: [no dates]

Topics covered: n/a

6p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP W899 (942)

[Describes why and how the group set about producing a book drawn from their recollections]

OTLEY

Title: Coming Up Singing: Local Memories Recorded in Otley Museum (1990)

Author: Christine Dean


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, games, health, housing, work

64p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP OTL 940

[Recollections of a disabled elderly group: “No attempt was made to gather … stories in the accepted manner …. These are conversations which naturally evolved]

Title: Dinner Takers May Go (1998)

Author: Gaythorne Humphreys

Period Covered: 1908—1920s

Topics covered: Education, family, games, transport, war, work, youth,

11p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP B COO

[“An autobiography laced with social history.”]

Title: Collections of Historical Notes on Prince Henry’s Grammar School, Otley in West Yorkshire

(1995)

Author: Douglas A. Spencer


Topics covered: Education, war

128p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP OTL 373

POTTERNEWTON

Title: Playing Football Until it Got Dark in Potternewton Park (no date)

Author: Neville Hyman

Period Covered: 1930s-1950

Topics covered: Childhood, family, shopping, sport

1p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP B HYM

PUDSEY

Title: Journey Into the Unknown (2000)

Author: J.S. King


Topics covered: Transport

10p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP PUD 388

[Recollections of a six-year old boy travelling on the Leeds to Pudsey tram in 1938]

Title: The Pudsey Album: Memories of Old Pudsey, Stanningley, and Farsley (1982)

Author: Pudsey Civic Society


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, health, housing,

work, youth

80p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP P962 (942)

[“…composed of memories of …. The district for the period roughly between 1895 and 1914 and

is based on tape recordings made of about 45 local people.”]

Title: A Valley of Memories (1990)

Author: “Cider Annie” (Annie Jones)

Period Covered: (not stated, but c.1900-1939)

Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, townscape, work

43p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP B JON

Title: Louie (1995)

Author: Moira Rutherford

Period Covered: 1900-1930s

Topics covered: Shopping, work

11p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP B MAT

Title: More Roses in December (no date)

Author: W. M. Harrison

Period Covered: 1910-1990s

Topics covered: Childhood, education, war

13p

Shelfmark: LQP B HAR

[Coronation of George V, outbreak of WW1, unemployment ]

RAWDON

Title: Little London, Rawdon Leeds: The History of the Community (2013)

Author: Graham Branston

Period Covered: 1950


36p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LPQ RAW 942

RICHMOND HILL Title: The Days of Yesteryear in Richmond Hill: Memories of the Old Days (1989)

Author: Hunslet YTS [ed.]


Topics Covered: Education, Entertainment, Family, Health, Housing, Shopping, Transport, War

38p, illustrated [1989]

Shelfmark: LP RIC 414 (942)

Title: Past Times on The Bank and Richmond Hill (2006)

Author: Ann Richards, ed.


Topics covered: Crime and punishment, education, entertainment, shopping, townscape,

transport

18p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP RIC 942

[“…the students [on a Local and Family History course] chose a topic of personal interest to re-

search.”]

Title: Memories of Our East Leeds: Memories of Our Childhood and Teenage Years From the

30’s, 40’s and 50’s (2007)

Author: Peter Wood and Graham Hawkridge, eds.


Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family,

health, shopping, townscape, war, work, youth

49p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP RIC 942

Title: The Berthas: Childhood Memories of Growing Up in Richmond Hill in the 1930s and 1940s

(no date)

Author: Terry Culhane


Topics covered: childhood, shopping, war, old remedies

31p, illustrated with photographs

Shelfmark: LQP B CUL

[experiences of Mount St. Mary’s Catholic school, church,

bonfire night, St. Michael’s College, cinema , RAF]

ROTHWELL

Title: Material on Bessie Hurworth and Rothwell Library (2009)

Author: Bessie Hurworth


Topics covered: Education, work

18p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP ROT (027)

Title: A Brief History of Rothwell and District Libraries (2005)

Author: Eileen Roberts


Topics covered: Townscape, work

20p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP ROT 027

(Includes reminiscences of a library career, 1948-1996)

SCHOLES

Title: Memories of Old Scholes (1982)

Author: Henry Shippen (ed. by Frances R. Craven)


Topics covered: Entertainment, education, family, health,

housing, transport, work

11p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP SCH 64 (942)

Title: Do You Remember? Stanningley over 70-years Ago (1989)

Author: Lily Clearly


Topics covered: Family, shopping, townscape

12p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP STA 942

[See also 2nd edition with additional illustrations]

ST JAMES HOSPITAL, BECKETT STREET, LS9

Title: A Nurse at Jimmy’s ( 1999)

Author: Ruth Mawson


Topics covered: Education ( nurse training ), work

80p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP B MAW

STOURTON

Title: Stourton, The Village that Disappeared: A Brief History and

Personal Reminisces (2000)

Author: Steven Calline


Topics covered: Education, family, games

64p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP STO 914

[see part 2 for personal reminisces]

SWINNOW

Title: Swinnow Memories: A Celebration of Stories From the Past (1994)

Author: Various


Topics covered: Education, family, games, townscape, transport

41p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP SWI 942

Title: St Gregory’s Primary School Silver Jubilee: 1964-1989 (1989)

Author: Various



24p

Shelfmark: LP SW (372)

[Recollections of former staff and present pupils]

Title: Houghside: A School History (1992)

Author: Donald Fletcher



48p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP SWI 373

[…I have written this book as a former pupil, 1967-1971]

THORP ARCH

Title: Thorp Arch: Recollections of a Yorkshire Village Before and During

the Second World War: 1939-1945 (2001)

Author: Richard Kennedy


Topics covered: Education, family, war

76p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LQP THO 942

WOODHOUSE

Title: Childhood Memories in Woodhouse (1993)

Author: Woodhouse Local History Group


Topics covered: Family, games

24p, illustrated

Shelfmark: LP WOO 942

[“We looked back on the days when the streets were our playground “]

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