Recorded Memories
Lilian Coley
Interviews. December 1997 & September 2001.
Work and family in an industrial village 1917-1961:
‘I happened to get a bit quick…don’t you think that’s a lot of money for a girl your age…’
'If there was a smash-up there would be aggro all round'
‘She’d [mother] put a shoe together,the toe cap, the galosh, the back strap and father could make it up’
‘I wasn’t very happy, a big belt over me head and the floor was concrete and I always had cold feet’
‘I remember one of the boys crying ‘cos he’d got to stop [at school] another year’