| Description | DOB: March 1897
DOD: Unknown
Born in Harrow Hill, Forest of Dean, one of 10 children.
Mother died when author aged 16.
Religious upbringing.
Educated at Drybrook School from age 5, and Sunday School.
Description of life in the Forest of Dean in the early part of the 20th century, hard-working childhood, stable and happy domestic life, domestic routines, daily chores, diet, dress, schooling, leisure and entertainment, food shortages, impact of the General Strike on local miners and his own livelihood.
Married, 5 children.
Part time butchers assistant aged 8-9
Left school aged 12 to work in the mines.
Exempted from military service due to diphtheria, instead sent to work in iron ore mines at Wigpool.
Milk round
Farm labourer
Ditch cutter
Lived most of his life in Forest of Dean until 1928, when he moved to Herefordshire, and on to Droitwich in 1938/1939.
Singing
Regular church attender
Left school aged 12
Mother died aged 16
Wrote 216 page manuscript about life in the forest in 1974
Typed, a total of 14 pages
Forest of Dean, farm labourer |