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Ref NoBURN/2/619
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TitlePidgeon, Alice: Looking over my Shoulder to Childhood Days and After
DescriptionDOB: 1898
DOD: UNKNOWN

Had one sister.
The author reminisces good times with her parents whilst growing up.
Father worked as a journalist, and mother was a dressmaker. Both parents died.
The author lost her mother, father and newborn sister at a very young age, within space of 8 weeks and subsequent life in orphanage.
Attended school.
Lived at the orphanage.
Left school at the age of 14.

Married.
Had two daughters.

Helped out in the house, the sewing room, or with the babies.
Helped out in Ogilvy School of Recovery.
Worked as a nanny.

Enjoyed attending concerts.

The autobiography focuses on the childhood of the author, especially after she had to grow up in an orphanage due to the deaths of her parents.

The Autobiography is typewritten; 31pp

Childhood, Family, Orphanage, Work, Bolton. Lived London; Turnbridge Wells; Clacton; Bolton; Fallowfield; Bowden; West Didsbury.
Daten.d. [post 1898]
LevelItem
Extent1
FormatBoth hard and digital copies
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