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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Voices from the Past A catalogue of published and unpublished autobiographical material held at Leeds Central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 “]