Personal Stories: 1920 - 1929

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Well when I was young and lived on the farm at Stoneshegate [Stones Hey Gate – local dialect] I remember we used to be able to skip across the road you know, no traffic to stop you, and play whip and top all along the road you know, there was no traffic to interfere with us at all.

Well my name is Mrs Audrey Clark, I was born in Luddendenfoot, a place called Turner Buildings at Luddendenfoot which is up a place called Naylor Lane; it’s up the top end of the village.

I’m Jean Houlston and previously Lister, and I was born at what they call Kipping’s End, or Calder Brook, which is the back of where Walkley’s is – what was Walkley’s the clog place, and from there we moved up on to the Heights up on the top

I’m Dorothy Tonge – I was Cockroft before. I had two brothers and we lived at Hawksclough. Me two brothers were born in a public house there, called the Craven Heifer and then it was made into two cottages and I was born in one of the cottages, and I don’t know what happened but they wanted us out of the cottages, and I went up Banks, right at the top of the hill until I was four and then me mum and dad worked at Westfield Mill

I’m Mary Kershaw and I was born in Mytholmroyd in 1921, and originally I was Mary Sunderland and in between I’ve been Mary Greenroyd, and I was born at Stocks Cottages – that’s some small cottages at the entrance to Stocks Hall just on there, and but then I moved to…when I was four years to Banksfields, I went to Burnley Road School and then until I was…nearly fourteen, thirteen and a half, and my father was in the weaving industry in Hebden Bridge, and my mother was also in the weaving part-time at Hawksclough.