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| Swimming Gala, 26 October 1914 |
I knew my grandmother was a good swimmer, but I never saw her swim, in pool, sea or river. But this programme from the early days of World War One shows that she did swim well.
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| My grandmother appears as Eva Neild in Event 1, and came third in the first heat of Event 3. Her brother Billy competed in Event 5. |
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| Uncle Billy was in the first heat of Event 19. |
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| Some undated pastel drawing by my father from the late 1920s when he was a pupil at St Margaret's School, Moss Side, which he hated. I completed very similar drawings at my primary school thirty years later. |
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| My father's watercolour paintings done as a child at St Margaret's School, Moss Side. |
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| My father's 'sums': arithmetic lessons at St Margaret's. |
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| I guess this is a card my father embroidered and wrote for his mother's birthday. |
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| My father's school reports when he was nine years old. These were large classes. |
You can read my father's account of his childhood here
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