Add to ORKGOutlines how parents met, family, father losing job as musician at cinema when talking pictures arrived, poverty, father dying, being put in Loughborough Workhouse. Describes admission procedure, food, moving to Market Bosworth Workhouse. Describes choosing job age 14, accident with machine, condition of lodgings. Very briefly mentions job in clicking room at Schoolboy Boot Company, Mountsorrel, Leics. Outlines being called up in 1941, posted to North Africa with Royal Artilliary. Describes brother's schizophrenia, attempts to cure him
Recalls childhood at Old Woodhouse, Leicestershire where her father worked as a chauffer at Beaumano...
Joint interview with husband and wife. Mr Mitchelson recalls moving from Bourne in Lincolnshire to L...
Describes mother and fathers' families, upbringing in Barrow on Soar, Leicestershire. Mentions schoo...
Briefly describes being at Market Bosworth workhouse, Leicestershire. Talks about life at the Holt B...
Talks about upbringing in, and workings of, Mountsorrel Workhouse, Leicestershire, where parents wer...
Outlines being born crippled, in and out of hospital to age 14. Explains father's job as clicker in ...
Recalls childhood poverty in Forest Road, Leicester, lack of food in winter, furniture lost to means...
Outlines how parents married in Canada, returned to England to live in Queniborough, Leicestershire....
Outline of family background, not having enough money to attend grammar school. Describes work, pay,...
Brief family background in Lancashire, outline of academic career to Cambridge University where stud...
Recalls an operation as child. Very briefly mentions conditions in First World War, including food q...
Describes joining Midland railway, becoming junior clerk at Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, in 1920, ...
Recalls childhood games and school days in Leicester. Talks about first job in a brewery, then work ...
Outlines how unemployment, then father's absence due to Second World War, led to family poverty. Des...
Describes entry to a Receiving Home in Leicester due to parent's illness, staying with Mrs Hammond o...
Recalls childhood at Old Woodhouse, Leicestershire where her father worked as a chauffer at Beaumano...
Joint interview with husband and wife. Mr Mitchelson recalls moving from Bourne in Lincolnshire to L...
Describes mother and fathers' families, upbringing in Barrow on Soar, Leicestershire. Mentions schoo...
Briefly describes being at Market Bosworth workhouse, Leicestershire. Talks about life at the Holt B...
Talks about upbringing in, and workings of, Mountsorrel Workhouse, Leicestershire, where parents wer...
Outlines being born crippled, in and out of hospital to age 14. Explains father's job as clicker in ...
Recalls childhood poverty in Forest Road, Leicester, lack of food in winter, furniture lost to means...
Outlines how parents married in Canada, returned to England to live in Queniborough, Leicestershire....
Outline of family background, not having enough money to attend grammar school. Describes work, pay,...
Brief family background in Lancashire, outline of academic career to Cambridge University where stud...
Recalls an operation as child. Very briefly mentions conditions in First World War, including food q...
Describes joining Midland railway, becoming junior clerk at Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, in 1920, ...
Recalls childhood games and school days in Leicester. Talks about first job in a brewery, then work ...
Outlines how unemployment, then father's absence due to Second World War, led to family poverty. Des...
Describes entry to a Receiving Home in Leicester due to parent's illness, staying with Mrs Hammond o...
Recalls childhood at Old Woodhouse, Leicestershire where her father worked as a chauffer at Beaumano...
Joint interview with husband and wife. Mr Mitchelson recalls moving from Bourne in Lincolnshire to L...
Describes mother and fathers' families, upbringing in Barrow on Soar, Leicestershire. Mentions schoo...