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Family photographs and reminiscences from Angela Wood

These photographs are reproduced with the kind permission of Angela Wood

Dawdon Girls School pupils 1920's. Angela's grandmother Ella Balmer (born 1916) is in the back row, 3rd from right

 

Dawdon Miners Lodge 1953 - Angela's great grandfather Michael Balmer (born 1888) is in the front row, 4th from left. Tommy Gasgoine is in the top row , 2nd from the left and Ernie Taylor is in the front row, 3rd from the left

 

Club & Institute Union membership card for Angela's great-grandfather for Dawdon Workingmen's Club in 1920 (100 years old). Angela remembers that at her wedding reception in Dawdon Club the doorman insisted that everyone who wasn't a member had to "sign in" and pay the nominal 20p charge.