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Elsie Jessop

I am Elsie May Jessop but my maiden name was Barker and when I was a child I lived in Woolsthorpe on the top road, before the council houses were built on the opposite side. I was born on the 20th of March, 1921. My father worked on the Ironstone. I was the eldest with two brothers and two sisters. Kenneth Douglas, - always called Douglas was the eldest boy and he lives the other side of Sheffield now. Then came Alfred William who married Barbara Barker (who used to work at the Surgery). Then there was Frances who worked at Barford`s during the war and then went to work at the school in Oundle. She got married and had three children. The youngest was Mary who had two children. Read more....

Pearl Jackson

My name is Pearl Jackson, nee Hotchin, and I was born up Bourne Road, Colsterworth, at Wood Houses, one of fifteen children. The Wood Houses were situated in what is now the picnic area of Twyford Woods. My father used to catch rabbits to help feed his family and he also used to take them to people in the village. My dad was a forester, for the Forestry Commission, for thirty-six years. He would catch the rabbits and the deer and the pheasants, and that is what we lived on. We couldn`t afford a butcher, but we were well fed, all the same. Dad, Harold James, came from Redmile and Mum, Annie Kathleen, was from Calverton. His job brought him this way to work in Twyford Woods. Read more....