Personal Stories: 1900 - 1909

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Well I can’t tell you where I were born, no I can’t but I can tell you where I used to live – down Charlestown oh right you know, towards Hebden Bridge yes yes, and me father got killed on t’railway there oh did he? yes, he were a foreman platelayer I see and then me mother, we came a-living up Todmorden after that – we lived at Charlestown, you know yeh, I know and we came a-living up Todmorden because her mother lived at Knowle Wood I know it and you know, she said it were a lot better than living on her own because he left her with me and two more sisters and a baby in t’cradle