Personal Stories: 1930 - 1939

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My dad were a fairly heavy drinker so we’d never any money. When he used to take school dinners from…they made ‘em at Colden School and he used to take them on t’horse and cart to Heptonstall School and many a time he didn’t get past Shoulder of Mutton at Blackshaw because his parents owned that [laughing] so he wouldn’t have got home when I would have got home from school and I had to walk to school from Smithy Farm to Colden which is about two mile when I was five.

Josie Vera Ann Eidson, me maiden name. I was born in Stoney Middleton, that’s in the Peak District…and I’ve been married twice, I’ve had two children. I don’t like the world very much now, and where do you want me to start?

Oh bloody awful! It were noisy – I know what a weaving shed were like because I actually worked with a firm that had one, but I mean in those days it was horrendous – it was just noisy and I can remember it being full of dust in t’air and that, but we weren’t allowed to go in much, we weren’t allowed to go in, but I can remember t’odd times going in, maybe a couple of times I remember going in – I’d be very young. When I were old enough, when I was going to school at eleven or twelve my mother came out of it and worked in a shop so I really can’t remember much about it.
I can remember going to my dad’s factory because it were a bit different – he were a foreman or a manager and so you could go and see your dad then, and that was much more pleasant, well it wasn’t pleasant ‘cos it was a machine room where they made clothes but the warehouse part was fairly quiet and cleaner, if you can be clean in a factory [laughing].