Annie Lord (b.1899) Researching Writing Lives
My whole time and experience on the Writing Lives module has been only positive. I feel so privileged to have been able …
Harry Young: Введение (An Introduction)
‘I [have] written it all down, just as it flowed. Nothing added, nothing taken away. No preservatives, No colouring matter. The boozing …
Marion Owen (b. 1909): An Introduction
‘Beginning is always difficult […] the only answer is to plunge and see what happens’ Marion Owen’s clear love for nostalgia is …
Jack William Jones: An Introduction
My author Jack William Jones, born in 1900 in East End London, began writing his memoir post-retirement as a London busman, towards the …
Annie Lord, born 1899: Transcript of ‘my life’
This copy of Annie Lord’s memoir, ‘My Life’, was transcribed by Writing Lives student Lydia Roberts, 2019 my life – by Annie …
Annie Lord (b.1899): War and Memory
“… the 1914 soldiers use[d] to line up for there dinners in the High street Hornsey from the drilly Hall Bottom of …
Introducing Fred Baxter (1908-1997)
“I am sorry at times I seem to have gone ahead of my story. I done my best for being cemetery side …
Annie Lord (b.1899): Disabilities – Part One
“I was Born deaf in one ear, But was never found out those days till late in life, even at school I …
Cecil George Harwood (1894 – 1983): An Introduction
‘I think I was about 6 years old when I was asked to join the choir. I think that was the …
Fermin Rocker (b.1907.) : An Introduction
Fermin Rocker (22 December 1907 – 18 October 2004) Fermin Rocker, born on the 22nd December 1907 in the East End of …