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Growing up in Tickhill Tickhill and District Local History Society Growing up in Tickhill Betty Hill Occasional Paper No. 10 © Tickhill and District Local History Society 2010 Acknowledgements and notes Many thanks are due to Mrs Betty Hill for all her work in writing her memories of growing up in Tickhill and for providing the photographs of herself. Thanks to David Walters for his comments on a draft of the Paper edited by Hazel Moffat. Steve Payne has kindly taken several photographs and scanned all the illustrations into the text. Most of the photographs are part of Tickhill and District Local History Society's digitised collection. Where others have allowed us to copy their photographs, they are named beside the appropriate photographs. Some of Mrs Hill's memories about her time at the school run by the Misses Goodwin have appeared in the Schools' section of the Tickhill and District Local History Society's website, but are included here for the sake of completeness. Further general memories recorded by Mrs Hill can be read in the Living Memories section of the website at <http:/www.tickhillhistorysociety.org.uk> Mrs Hill refers in several places to our old currency, for example: 1/- (one shilling) = 5p and 1d (one penny) which was one twelfth of a shilling. 20 shillings made one pound. She also refers to our imperial weights system, for example 1 oz (ounce) was one sixteenth of 1 lb (pound) where a pound is the equivalent of about half a kilogram. Cover photograph: Betty aged ten 2 Growing up in Tickhill Introduction Betty Hill, née Rawson, was born in Tickhill in 1915 and grew up in the family home in Westgate with her parents, Ethel and John, her sister Joan and brother Roger. The Rawsons were a long-established firm of builders, employing many local people and building in brick and stone, including undertaking repairs to St Mary's Church. A permanent reminder of this building work is in the naming of Rawson Road with its mixture of council and private houses built by the Rawsons. Various members of the Rawson family in the 19th and early 20th Centuries also played leading roles in local life. Mrs Betty Hill When she reached school-age, Betty went to the small private school run by the Misses Goodwin on Northgate, then at age eleven she moved to Doncaster High School. In 1936 Betty married Ronald (Ron) Hill who had also grown up in Tickhill. In 2009 Ron's memories of his schooldays in Tickhill were published posthumously in this Occasional Paper series. It is with great pleasure that Tickhill and District Local History Society now publishes Betty's own memories providing a different perspective to Ron's and revealing many aspects of life in Tickhill with great clarity and humour. After reflecting on her time in primary school, Betty describes leisure time often spent with her friend Molly Fullwood then outlines job opportunities for local people and general living conditions in the 1920s. She finally returns to the theme of how spare time was spent with a great deal of live entertainment and sport. Local landmark events provide a backdrop to some of Betty's memories from the coming of electricity in 1926 and mains water the following year to a terrible explosion at Maltby Colliery in 1923 and the miners' strike three years later. Each section of Betty's memories is illustrated with photographs. This photograph shows Betty's family home at 16 Westgate, built by the Rawsons for Betty's parents to move into when they married in 1912. Betty's uncle and other relations lived next door in the much older property at 14 Westgate. The family's builder's yard was nearby at 20 Westgate. Betty's home had a garden beyond which was a field (the croft) stretching to Pinfold Lane. It was on this land bordering Pinfold Lane that a modern house was built where Betty's sister, Mrs Joan Wilcox, lived. 3 Betty Hill's memories I started school after Easter 1920 at the Misses Goodwin's School, which at that time was held in the Parish Room. (It had been going for some time but I don't know how long.) My cousin Edna Jarvis went from 1907-1914. Miss Nellie would have been about 29 in 1907 and Miss Grace, I think about 5 years younger. They had both been to the National School in Tickhill (the Big School). Latin and Algebra were taught by Mr Dixon to those intending to be teachers and Mr Greenhough taught Elementary Science, but French was not taught so Miss Nellie must have been to some after-school classes for she taught French to 8+ pupils. Miss Grace had been on a short course to learn to teach small children. Phyllis and Beryl Kirkland followed each other as assistants and helped with the younger ones. Zillah Crossland, the photographer's daughter, came to play the piano for exercises and singing. We mainly sang hymns from 'Golden Bells', which was a hymn book the Wesleyan Chapel had finished with. I well remember being taken on the first day by my brother Roger and given a seat on the platform next to a sweet looking little boy in a sailor suit called Peter. He was even shyer than I was so we both stayed silent. This changed when Molly started later in the term and from then on we were inseparable. Often we were called by each other's names and we answered to either. We started with slates (I still remember the screech the slate pencils made) and copy books. These were double lined with a pot hook or other curve or a stroke at the beginning of each line. The slates were usually used for sums. Miss Nellie was only at school for the first part of both the morning and the afternoon. She was Governess to Barbara Brooksbank [at Sandrock House] in the morning and Jean Cayley [at Renong, Westgate] in the afternoon. At school she taught the older children up to 14 or 15 English, Arithmetic, Scripture and French plus Geography and History. She left work for them to do for the rest of the time. She taught Grammar to a very high standard: when one boy went to Doncaster Grammar School, Mr Caxton told his parents that he was always pleased to get boys from the Miss Goodwin's School as they were always thoroughly grounded in Grammar and so were able to pick up Latin much more easily. Miss Nellie and her younger sister Miss Grace Goodwin are shown here with their pupils. They charged modest fees for attendance at their school. A receipt surviving from 1931 in Miss Maud Ashmore's possession shows a charge of £2/2/- for a quarter's tuition for two pupils, Maud and her twin sister Eunice. Small additional charges were made for books. 4 We always looked forward to 3 pm when Miss Grace settled us down to Sewing, including the boys, though they occasionally did simple Craft Work, and then read to us. The books were alternately chosen by her and by anyone who brought a suitable book. I remember being enthralled at 7 years old by 'The Old Oak Staircase', a Cavalier and Roundhead adventure, and when I was 10 by 'Cranford'. No small children's books were read. Miss Grace read really well, breaking off occasionally to attend to a sewing problem. Poetry and Painting were also popular. Again the choice of poems was also alternate. For our choice the bookshelves contained the works of Tennyson and Longfellow and various small collections. We learned anything from Milton (top class) to 'The Village Blacksmith'. Painting included producing Christmas Cards for several weeks before Christmas. The platform was very much used, partly for extra desks when the school was full, for Singing and Exercises and usually twice a year for concerts; Mothering Sunday plays and concerts in aid of Missionary Societies were the most frequent. The best acted was Mrs. Jarley's Waxworks with Anice Clarke as Mrs. Jarley, Jack Willoughby as her assistant and my brother enjoying himself whipping up customers. Jack was very tall and could move the living, but very stiff, waxworks about. Most of the rest of us were rather wooden actors, but we never forgot our lines. One of the performances given by the pupils of the Misses Goodwin's School Learning from memory was very well practised. The only homework we had was learning by heart. We had Spellings to learn by heart several times a week, a summary of the History or Geography we had been doing and at weekends we had from 2 to 12 verses of the Bible to learn according to age. I once got 6d (a fortune) for reciting The Sermon on the Mount without a mistake and Eileen Kitchen and I tied 1st for finding most names for God in both the Old and New Testaments. Scripture was an important part of the day. It started with prayers, then a Bible reading for the older ones and Bible stories for the rest. On Monday Miss Nellie gave a lesson on the Reading and explained it in a surprisingly undogmatic way. I think we all enjoyed that lesson. There was Grace at Dinner time and a short prayer at hometime. Sometimes Miss Grace would take us for a Spring walk. One day the boys saw a ladder against a stack in Wilsic Lane and climbed up. When told to come down they all did except Roger who resisted all attempts to get him down.
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