Local and Family History Research Guides Voices from the Past
A catalogue of published and unpublished autobiographical material held at Leeds Central Library. These pamphlets and short books contain the memories of Leeds and Yorkshire working-class people during the 20th-century, usually in their own words. Our Research Guides list some of the most useful, interesting and unique items in Local and Family History at Leeds Central Library. Many others are listed in our online and card catalogues. See secretlibraryleeds.net/research-collection-guides for more research guides.
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ABERFORD Title: Aberford in Times Past: Volume One (1983) Author: A.G. Bennett, T. Hayton, & K. Hewitt. Period covered: 1900-1950 Topics covered: Shopping, townscape, transport, war 48p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP ABE 942
ADEL Title: Just An Ordinary Life: Memories of Adel and Cookridge: 1889-1936 (1984) Author: Harry Mawson and Don Cole Period covered: 1900-1939 Topics covered: Education, family, housing, transport, war 40p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP AD 32 (942)
ALLERTON BYWATER Title: Allerton Bywater: As Time Goes By (1995) Author: Allerton Bywater Community Resource Group Period covered: 1910–1950 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, games, health, housing, shopping, transport, war, work 88p, illustrated Shelfmark: L ALL 942
Title: Allerton Bywater: On The Streets Where You Live (2005) Author: Allerton Bywater Community Resource group Period covered: 1910-1990 Topics covered: Education, war, work 101p, illustrated Shelfmark: L ALL 942
Title: The Retraining of a Redundant Workforce: A Local Study (1993) Author: Colin Cowell Period covered: 1980-1990 Topics covered: Education, industry, work
11p Shelfmark: LQP ALL 331 [A study prepared for a Northern College course, and including the author’s recollections of retraining schemes following a pit closure]
ARMLEY Title: Armley Through the Ages: Fifteen Short Articles on Armley History (1983) Author: Armley Society Period covered: [various] Topics covered: Townscape, transport 32p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP ARM 942
Title: The Armley Album (1980) Author: Iris Cole (ed.) Period covered: [various] Topics covered: Education, Entertainment, Family Health Housing Shopping Townscape Transport Work 67p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP ARM 942
Title: Armley Baths: An Asset to the Community (2010) Author: Sheila Gaunt and David Thornton (for Wortley Local History Group) Period covered: 1930-1990 Topics covered: Entertainment, family, health 32p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP ARMLEY 797
Title: Memories in the Fog: Growing up at 7 Butts View (2017) Author: David Ramsden Period Covered: 1950s Topics covered: Education, Childhood, Housing, Family, 22p, Shelfmark: LQP B RAM
Title: The Co-op Flour Lad Author: Jack Thornton Period Covered: 1940s Topics covered: Work, Shopping, War 5p Shelfmark: LQP B THO [Details work as a flour boy on Whingate Road]
THE BANK (East Leeds) Title: Memories of our East Leeds (2007) Author: Peter Hawkridge and Graham Wood Period covered: 1930-1950 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, transport, war, work 52p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BAN 942
Title: Further Memories of our East Leeds: Another Collection of Memories Related by the People Living in the Area in the 30s, 40s, 50s (no date, possibly 2007) Author: Peter Hawkridge and Graham Wood Period covered: 1930-1950 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, transport, war, work 52p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BAN 942
Title: Memories of The Bank and East End Park (2001) Author: Alma Radcliffe for the East Leeds Historical Society Period covered: 1900-1940 Topics covered: Education, family, townscape, work, war 16p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BAN 942
Title: My Childhood Days: Recollections of Childhood in the late 1930’s in Leeds (no date) Author: ‘Bill’ Period Covered: 1930s Topics covered: Games 13p, illustrated
Shelfmark: LP B BIL
BARWICK Title: Bygone Barwick: a Unique Collection of Photographs of Village Life in Barwick-in-Elmet (1986) Author: Barwick-in-Elmet Historical Society Period covered: 1900-1980 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, townscape, transport, work, youth 48p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BAR 942
BEESTON Title: Beeston: Rediscovered Heritage (1992) Author: Beeston Local History Society Period covered: 1900-1950 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, housing, shopping, townscape, work, war 64p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BEE 942
Title: Beeston: Pages from our Past (1990) Author: Beeston Local History Society Period covered: 1900-1950 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, health 34p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B392 (942)
Title: Memories of Old Beeston (1977) Author: A. Benge Period covered: 1910-1940 Topics covered: Townscape, work 1p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP B3392 (942) [Mainly recollections of the author’s father working as a cobbler]
Title: Working for Moorhouse’s: 1942-54 (2000) Author: John Green Period covered: 1942-1954 Topics covered: Industry, work 73p Shelfmark: LQP BEE 338 [“a personal memoir [of working] in a factory in the c.20th.”]
Title: Beeston Days (1991) Author: M. Payne and F. Goddard, for the Beeston Local History Society Period covered: 1920-1980 Topic covered: Education, entertainment, family, townscape, war, work 80p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BEE 920
Title: Beeston Near Leeds (1983) Author: Keith Richards, for the Beeston Local History Project Period covered: 1900-1980 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, townscape, transport, work, war 32p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B392 (942)
Title: Memories of Leeds (2014) Author: John Green Period covered: 1930s-1950 Topics covered: Education, war, music 32p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP B GRE [Cockburn School, evacuation]
BELLE ISLE Title: Hatches, Matches and Dispatches in Belle Isle (1991) Author: Centre Point Writing Group Period covered: 1930-1970 Topics covered: Entertainment, family, health, youth 47p, illustrated
Shelfmark: LP BEL 942
BRAMLEY Title: Bramley Bygones (1987) Author: Bramley History Society Period covered: [Various, mainly early 20th-century] Topics covered: Entertainment, family, shopping, war 58p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BRA 942
Title: Yards ‘n’ Yards of Bramley (1993) Author: Bramley History Society Period covered: 1920-30 Topics covered: Entertainment, housing, shopping, townscape 56p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BRA (942)
Title: Recollections of Bramley Band (1985) Author: Pauline Kirk (ed.) Period covered: 1900-1950 Topics covered: Entertainment 16p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B732 (785)
Title: Bramley: The Village that Disappeared (1984) Author: Pauline Kirk (ed.) Period covered: 1920-30 Topics covered: Family, education, entertainment, townscape, war, work 68p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B732 (942)
Title: Bradley Carnival Remembered (1997) Author: Ann Marsden Period covered: 1930-1980 Topics covered: Entertainment, leisure 28p, illustrated
BURLEY Title: Seems Like Yesterday: Burley Oral History Group (1995) Author: Sharon Astbury and Isobel Baylis Period covered: 1910-1980 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, housing, townscape, transport, war 76p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BUR 942
Title: A Walk Down Beckett Street: 1926-1932 (2006) Author: D. Jackson Period covered: 1920-1930 Topics covered: Shopping, townscape 20p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BUR 942
Title: Life Around St Stephen School (1967) Author: D. Jackson Period Covered: [various] Topics covered: Education, family, health, shopping, townscape 22p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BUR 942
Title: A Schoolboy’s View of World War II ( 2010 ) Author: Tony Michell Period Covered: 1940 , 1944 Topics covered: Evacuation to Leeds ( p,12-15,p25-27 ), family, war 33p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B MIT [covers the author’s evacuation to Leeds 1940., unclear how long, approx. 1 year. Returned 1944, when it appears he visited Leeds and Normanton..]
Title: Early Burley (1992) Author: Alan McDonald for Burley Local History Group Period Covered: 1900-1990 Topics covered: Townscape, education, shops, entertainment, housing, transport, war, youth 63p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP BUR 942
Title: 130, Burley Road: Childhood Memories (2008) Author: Rosalie Batty, nee Hoyle (ed., George Wigglesworth) Period Covered: [not stated, but c.1900-1939] Topics covered: Entertainment, family, games, housing, youth 28p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B HOY
CALVERLEY Title: A West Riding Childhood (1967) Author: J.A. Harrison Period Covered: 1900-1910 Topics covered: Education, Family, Housing, Townscape Work 129p, with maps Shelfmark: LQ CAL 942 [A picture of life in the village of Calverley between 1902-1908]
Title: Calverley in The 1920’s Author: Alan Grimshaw Period Covered: 1910-1920 Topics covered: Family, education, games, transport, entertainment, holidays 25p, family photos, house floorplans Shelfmark: LQP B GRI [ includes description of an average week at No. 20 Salisbury Street]
CHAPELTOWN Title: When Our Ship Comes In: Black Women Talk (1992) Author: Chapeltown Black Women Writer’s Group Period Covered: 1950-1990 Topics covered: Education, family, population 71p, illustrated Shelfmark: L CHA 305
Title: Chapeltown and its Jews (2003) Author: Murray Freeman Period Covered: 1900-1980 Topics covered: Family, population, townscape, youth 44p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP CHA 305.8
Title: Where’s the Water Gone? A Chapeltown Soap Opera: The Story of the Chapeltown Laundry Co-Operative (1999) Author: Alan Walker (ed.) Period Covered: 1983-1995 Topics covered: Family, population, work 104p, illustrated Shelfmark: L CHA 381 [“We want to tell you our story of how …a group of Black women… came together in a workers’ cooperative to provide laundry services to our community.”]
Title: Voices of Chapeltown (1980s) Author: [Various] Period Covered: 1980s Topics covered: Education, family, population Numerous pages, illustrated Shelfmark: LQ CHA 820 [Miscellaneous journals, which include personal recollections, prose and poetry]
Title: Growing Up Black in Leeds (nd.) Author: Asher Hoyles Period Covered: 1960s-1970s
Topics covered: Race, Family, education, religion, 2p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP B HOY [Experience of growing up in Chapletown until the age of 16]
CITY CENTRE Title: My Life in the Fashion Trade (no date) Author: Molly A. Kean Period Covered: 1944—1995 Topics covered: Shopping, work 11p Shelfmark: LP B KEA
COOKRIDGE Title: The Recollections of the Childhood of Malcolm Glegg (2008) Author: Malcolm Glegg and Alma Wigglesworth (ed., George Wigglesworth) Period Covered: 1928—1942 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, housing, war, youth 28p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B GLE
Title: Rylstone, Tinshill Lane, Cookridge ( 2008 ) Author: George Wigglesworth ed. Period covered: 1920’s-1940’s Topics covered: family, work, townscape, youth, education 32p Shelfmark: LP B WIG [Malcolm’s reminiscences of Tinshill, Else’s recollections about Alma, memories from George and Margaret.]
COLLINGHAM Title: Memories of Railways at Collingham Bridge (1995) Author: Sydney Martin Period Covered: 1930-1940 Topics covered: Family, transport, war 8p, illustrated
Shelfmark: LP COL 385 [Reminiscences of an 80-year old railway-man]
COLTON Title: Colton in Leeds Remembered: 1947-1951 (2012) Author: Harry Cockerham Period Covered: 1940-1950 Topics covered: Education, family, townscape, transport 34p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP COL 942
Title: Colton Institute: 1896-1984 (1984) Author: Margaret Surestall Period Covered: 1940s Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family 8p Shelfmark: LP C722 (367) [Brief reminiscences from page 5, covering education & dances - mainly from 1940s]
CROSS GATES Title: The Living History Project: Recording Memories for Future Generations (2009) Author: Jane Robinson Period Covered: 1930-1940 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, war, work 20p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP CRO 920
EAST LEEDS Title: More Memories of our East Leeds: A Collection of Stories Related by People Living in the Area During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s (2011) Author: Graham Hawkridge & Pam Wright Period covered: 1930-1950 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, shopping, townscape, war, work 61p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP EAS 942
EAST KESWICK Title: East Keswick Memories (2011) Author: Jean Harris (nee Moscrop) Period Covered: 1932—1954 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, youth, war, work 28p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B GLE
FARNLEY Title: A Portrait of Farnley (1988) Author: Farnley Local History Group Period Covered: 1900-1950 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, townscape, transport 59p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP F236 (942) [Chapter 8 includes memories of Farnley residents]
Title: Stonebridge Mills (2001) Author: Wortley Local History Group Period Covered: 1940-1980 Topics covered: Family, work 34p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP FAR 942 [page 29 includes memories of working in the Mill]
Title: Farnley Oh Farnley: Voices From Beyond (nd.) Author: Ken Cooper Period Covered: Various Topics covered: Entertainment, transport 11p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B COO [Almost certainly a parody, in the style of a ‘zine]
GARFORTH Title: Garforth at War: 1935-45 (1989) Author: Garforth Historical Society
Period Covered: 1935-1945 Topics covered: Family, education, work, war 52p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP G18 (942) [Contains personal reminiscences}
Title: Transcripts of Recorded Interviews with Garforth Residents (1978) Author: Garforth Historical Society Period Covered: 1900-1960 Topics covered: Education, family, games, shopping, townscape, work 11p Shelfmark: LQ GAR 942
Title: A Short History of Garforth (1980) Author: Garforth Historical Society Period Covered: Mainly 1940s Topics covered: Education. entertainment, family, war 77p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP G18 (942) [Chapter 10: Memories of Old Garforth – includes personal material and life stories, especially focusing on WW2]
GILDERSOME Title: Gildersome — Do You Remember? (1994) Author: [Various] Period Covered: 1920s Topics covered: Family, housing 51p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP GIL 942 [See pages 40-42 for a recollection of the 1920s through the eyes of a child]
GIPTON Title: North Farm Middle School: Writing, 1983 (1983) Author: Various Period Covered: 1980s Topics covered: Education, family
98p
Shelfmark: LQ G44 (373) [Writing by pupils and staff recounting experiences, perceptions and imaginary stories]
HAREHILLS Title: LS8: People Building Stories (2005) Author: [Various] Period Covered: 1950-2000 Topics covered: Family, housing, townscape, work 31p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP HAR 914 [Brief interviews with current Harehills residents]
Title: Memories of Harehills (2001) Author: Blakeley, Barbara Period Covered: 1930, 1940, Topics covered: education, entertainment, family, housing, war, work 12p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP HAR 942
HEADINGLEY Title: Royal Park/Queens Road School Centenary (1992) Author: Royal Park Middle School Period Covered: 1900-1990 Topics covered: Education, Family 64p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP HEA 372 [Recollections of past and present pupils and staff]
HOLBECK Title: Another Line from Leeds: With Special Reference to Holbeck, 1914-1945 (1989) Author: Kathy Miller Period Covered: 1910-1940 Topics covered: Education, family, games, health, war, work 64p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQ HOL 942
Title: ‘Swaps’ Holbeck (2001) Author: Steve Truelove Period Covered: 1920-2000 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, health, housing, shopping, townscape, transport , work, youth 71p, illustrated Shelfmark: L HOL 942
HORSFORTH Title: The Towns’ School: 100-years of Elementary Education: National St Margaret’s (1980) Author: David V. Thomas Period Covered: 1900-1920 Topics covered: Education 80p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP H 787 (372) [Reminiscences of old pupils on pages 68-71]
HUNSLET Title: An Apprentice at McLaren’s:1916-1920 (1976) Author: S.R. Fowler Period Covered: 1910-1920 Topics covered: Transport, war, work 36p Shelfmark: LP HUN 331
Title: Childhood Memories of Hunslet (1989) Author: Carrie Stocks Period Covered: 1932-1950 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, housing, shopping, townscape, transport, war, work, youth 36p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP H91 (942)
Title: Hunslet Baptist Church: 1837-2012 (2012) Author: Gill Knowles Period Covered: 1940-1950
Topics covered: Education, family, housing, war work 20p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP HUN 286 [Early recollections by Frank Rowley on pages 8-14]
Title: A Hunslet Story: Commemorating 125-years of the Sisters of Mercy in St. Joseph’s Parish (2004) Author: Patsy Toher and Ellen McGrath Period Covered: 1900-1990 Topics covered: Education, family, housing, youth 66p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP HUN 271 [Contains recollections of Priests, Nuns and Parishioners]
KIRKSTALL Title: Kirkstall, As I Knew It: 1896-1914 Author: Sydney H. Pickering Period Covered: 1896-1914 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, work 12p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP K 636 (942)
Title: Spanish Wine, Kirkstall Vintage (1998) Author: Kirkstall Oral History Group Period Covered: 1920-1950 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, games, health, war, work, youth 100p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP KIR 942
Title: A Kirkstall Childhood (2002) Author: Hazel. M. Poulter Period Covered: 1930s Topics covered: Family, Housing, Shopping, Church, Transport 10p, illustrated with Kirkstall Parish magazine & adverts Shelfmark: LQP B POU
KNOSTROP Title: Won’t Someone Please Remember the Knowles Family of Knostrop? (no date) Author: Unknown Period Covered: 1930s-1960s Topics covered: Family, War, housing 44p, illustrated with family photos Shelfmark: LQP B KNO [Detailed account of the Knowles family and their lives]
LITTLE LONDON Title: A Little Bit of History: Words and Photos from Little London Residents, Past and Present (2015) Author: Andrew Coley and Hannah Carey, eds. Period Covered: 1920-2000 Topics covered: Education, family, housing, games, population, work 68p, illustrated Shelfmark: L LIT 942 [“to discover, rediscover and share aspects of the history, through the experiences of residents and former residents.”]
MEANWOOD Title: Pages From My Scrapbook of Meanwood (2002) Author: Jean Barker Period Covered: 1900-1990 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, housing, townscape, war 48p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP MEA 942 [Recollections and reminiscences]
Title: Meanwood in the 1920s (1975) Author: Mary Henderson Period Covered: 1920s Topics covered: Family, townscape 6p Shelfmark: LQP M 462 (942) [Brief recollections of childhood in Meanwood]
MICKLEFIELD Title: Sweet Dreams of Yesteryear: My Micklefield (2010) Author: Denis Best Period Covered: 1950- 1990 Topics covered: Education, family, games, work 163p, illustrated Shelfmark: L MIC 942 [Personal memories from page 77]
MIDDLETON Title: Middleton Against Unemployment Group Newspaper (1991) Author: [Various] Period Covered: 1990s Topics covered: Education, work 4p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP M584 (331) [Brief articles, including critique of the YOPS scheme]
Title: Backward Glances (1989) Author: Jeanne Hopley, ed. Period Covered: [Various, mainly early and mid-20th-century] Topics covered: Education, family, housing, townscape, work, war 42p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP M 584 (942) [Reminiscences from local people in a Further Education Study group]
MORLEY Title: Don’t Go Down the Mine, Dad (2000) Author: David A Reekie Period Covered: 1940s Topics covered: Mining, War 46p, illustrated Shelfmark: L QP BREE [Talks about being a Bevin Boy, Experience of Mines]
NEW WORTLEY Title: Producing a Book: How and Why (1985) Author: New Wortley Local History Group Period Covered: [no dates] Topics covered: n/a 6p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP W899 (942) [Describes why and how the group set about producing a book drawn from their recollections]
OTLEY Title: Coming Up Singing: Local Memories Recorded in Otley Museum (1990) Author: Christine Dean Period Covered: 1900-1990 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, games, health, housing, work 64p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP OTL 940 [Recollections of a disabled elderly group: “No attempt was made to gather … stories in the accepted manner …. These are conversations which naturally evolved]
Title: Dinner Takers May Go (1998) Author: Gaythorne Humphreys Period Covered: 1908—1920s Topics covered: Education, family, games, transport, war, work, youth, 11p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B COO [“An autobiography laced with social history.”]
Title: Collections of Historical Notes on Prince Henry’s Grammar School, Otley in West Yorkshire (1995) Author: Douglas A. Spencer Period Covered: 1910-1980 Topics covered: Education, war 128p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP OTL 373
POTTERNEWTON Title: Playing Football Until it Got Dark in Potternewton Park (no date) Author: Neville Hyman Period Covered: 1930s-1950 Topics covered: Childhood, family, shopping, sport 1p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP B HYM
PUDSEY Title: Journey Into the Unknown (2000) Author: J.S. King Period Covered: 1930-1940 Topics covered: Transport 10p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP PUD 388 [Recollections of a six-year old boy travelling on the Leeds to Pudsey tram in 1938]
Title: The Pudsey Album: Memories of Old Pudsey, Stanningley, and Farsley (1982) Author: Pudsey Civic Society Period Covered: 1895-1914 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, health, housing, work, youth 80p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP P962 (942) [“…composed of memories of …. The district for the period roughly between 1895 and 1914 and is based on tape recordings made of about 45 local people.”]
Title: A Valley of Memories (1990) Author: “Cider Annie” (Annie Jones) Period Covered: (not stated, but c.1900-1939) Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, townscape, work 43p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B JON
Title: Louie (1995) Author: Moira Rutherford Period Covered: 1900-1930s Topics covered: Shopping, work 11p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B MAT
Title: More Roses in December (no date) Author: W. M. Harrison Period Covered: 1910-1990s Topics covered: Childhood, education, war 13p Shelfmark: LQP B HAR [Coronation of George V, outbreak of WW1, unemployment ]
RAWDON Title: Little London, Rawdon Leeds: The History of the Community (2013) Author: Graham Branston Period Covered: 1950 Topics covered: Education 36p, illustrated Shelfmark: LPQ RAW 942
RICHMOND HILL Title: The Days of Yesteryear in Richmond Hill: Memories of the Old Days (1989) Author: Hunslet YTS [ed.] Period Covered: 1920-1960 Topics Covered: Education, Entertainment, Family, Health, Housing, Shopping, Transport, War 38p, illustrated [1989] Shelfmark: LP RIC 414 (942)
Title: Past Times on The Bank and Richmond Hill (2006) Author: Ann Richards, ed. Period Covered: 1930-1980 Topics covered: Crime and punishment, education, entertainment, shopping, townscape, transport 18p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP RIC 942 [“…the students [on a Local and Family History course] chose a topic of personal interest to re- search.”]
Title: Memories of Our East Leeds: Memories of Our Childhood and Teenage Years From the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s (2007) Author: Peter Wood and Graham Hawkridge, eds. Period Covered: 1930-1960 Topics covered: Education, entertainment, family, health, shopping, townscape, war, work, youth 49p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP RIC 942
Title: The Berthas: Childhood Memories of Growing Up in Richmond Hill in the 1930s and 1940s (no date) Author: Terry Culhane Period Covered: 1930s-1940s Topics covered: childhood, shopping, war, old remedies 31p, illustrated with photographs Shelfmark: LQP B CUL [experiences of Mount St. Mary’s Catholic school, church, bonfire night, St. Michael’s College, cinema , RAF]
ROTHWELL Title: Material on Bessie Hurworth and Rothwell Library (2009) Author: Bessie Hurworth Period Covered: 1940-1980 Topics covered: Education, work 18p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP ROT (027)
Title: A Brief History of Rothwell and District Libraries (2005) Author: Eileen Roberts Period Covered: 1948-1996 Topics covered: Townscape, work 20p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP ROT 027 (Includes reminiscences of a library career, 1948-1996)
SCHOLES Title: Memories of Old Scholes (1982) Author: Henry Shippen (ed. by Frances R. Craven) Period Covered: 1900-1920 Topics covered: Entertainment, education, family, health, housing, transport, work 11p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP SCH 64 (942)
Title: Do You Remember? Stanningley over 70-years Ago (1989) Author: Lily Clearly Period Covered: 1900-1910 Topics covered: Family, shopping, townscape 12p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP STA 942 [See also 2nd edition with additional illustrations]
ST JAMES HOSPITAL, BECKETT STREET, LS9 Title: A Nurse at Jimmy’s ( 1999) Author: Ruth Mawson Period Covered: 1940s-1970s Topics covered: Education ( nurse training ), work 80p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP B MAW
STOURTON Title: Stourton, The Village that Disappeared: A Brief History and Personal Reminisces (2000) Author: Steven Calline Period Covered: 1940-1990 Topics covered: Education, family, games 64p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP STO 914 [see part 2 for personal reminisces]
SWINNOW Title: Swinnow Memories: A Celebration of Stories From the Past (1994) Author: Various Period Covered: 1900-1940 Topics covered: Education, family, games, townscape, transport 41p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP SWI 942
Title: St Gregory’s Primary School Silver Jubilee: 1964-1989 (1989) Author: Various Period Covered: 1960-1980 Topics covered: Education 24p Shelfmark: LP SW (372) [Recollections of former staff and present pupils]
Title: Houghside: A School History (1992) Author: Donald Fletcher Period Covered: 1950-1990 Topics covered: Education 48p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP SWI 373 […I have written this book as a former pupil, 1967-1971]
THORP ARCH Title: Thorp Arch: Recollections of a Yorkshire Village Before and During the Second World War: 1939-1945 (2001) Author: Richard Kennedy Period Covered: 1920s-1940s Topics covered: Education, family, war 76p, illustrated Shelfmark: LQP THO 942
WOODHOUSE Title: Childhood Memories in Woodhouse (1993) Author: Woodhouse Local History Group Period Covered: 1920-1950 Topics covered: Family, games 24p, illustrated Shelfmark: LP WOO 942 [“We looked back on the days when the streets were our playground “]