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Hilda Gott was born in a small two bedroom terraced house in Middlesbrough not long after the First World War ended. Her maternal grandfather had moved from Prickwillow on the rural Suffolk border to Eston, east of Middlesbrough, in 1881 to work in the booming steel industry. Hilda's paternal ancestors were Yorkshire born and bred.A signals operator in the Second World War, Hilda was posted to remote locations in Scotland and around the heart ...

Inside a small age-battered suitcase which had rested in a dusty attic for longer than anyone can remember, were two old address books, a birthday book, and an autograph book dating back to the First World War. Also inside were receipts, faded photographs, wills, and certificates of births, marriages and deaths. At the bottom of the case was a poignant document that entitled the bearer a burial plot in Caister Cemetery alongside her first husb...

Brought together with personal recollections from the author and other archival information and placed in the context of the times, this biography reveals the story of a most innovative and forward thinking Sheffield schoolmaster and educationist, William Henry Robinson.

Raised in rural Bedfordshire, Thomas Cade Wadner grew up in difficult and challenging times. He was a man of few words, and like many who endured a tough existence he rarely spoke about his experiences. Following eighteen months of extensive historical research, Philip Wadner reveals the highs and lows of his grandfather's life some half a century after his death.Thomas' story is substantially more than a collection of cold facts. Although nob...

If you are planning to obtain a grant of probate without a solicitor, especially if you are feeling a little daunted by the process, read this book first! After looking after mother-in-law's financial affairs for many years, I decided to carry out probate myself and started out on what I thought could be a lengthy and arduous process. It was not. There were hiccups, of course, but none of any great consequence. The process didn't take long, an...

Believed to have been the home of the de Homeley family in the late thirteenth century, the site of the medieval moated homestead in Whomerley Wood, Stevenage is located about one and a half miles almost due south of the original Saxon settlement around where St. Nicholas Church stands today. Evidence of medieval life has been found there, and excavations on the island have also uncovered relics from Roman times. Most books written about the h...

This anthology of short stories brings together some of the author's writing from the Open University's Creative Writing Module. Fifteen stories present the reader with a diverse cocktail of subject matter. Steamy Nights tells of hidden undercurrents within human relationships, Spoiled Pig and Chocolate Surprise portray revenge in quite different ways, and The Last Picnic is a heartbreaking story about cheating at the worst possible time. Penn...

This is a colourful collection of recent poems, which captures universal themes of happiness, despair, love and hope alongside unexpected subjects to surprise and delight. Many follow a traditional form, with examples of pantoum, sonnet, haiku, and villanelle with some comic rhyme, a shaped verse and a rap included for good measure. But most of the poems are simply... poems. There is no single poetic theme to announce, other than that the auth...

A fresh collection of one hundred and forty four limericks. The verse is witty, varied and modern, and the inclusion of an index of places, names and occupations makes it a handy reference for those occasions when asked to say a few words.