Doreen Hughes
Doreen Hughes (1926 – 2020) was born on 16th September 1926, to John and Charlotte Cassells. She had two sisters, Catherine and Vera. Doreen left school at 15 and took a job at a photographic studio, working with Catherine. She met her husband, George at the local badminton club. They...
Dorothy Easty
Dorothy Easty (1924 – 2018) was born in Northumberland to Charles and Maria Usher. She had two older sisters, Muriel and Brenda. Dorothy went to the Duchess’ School, in Alnwick, where she showed an early aptitude in sciences. She then studied Chemistry at University College London, gaining a first class...
Dorothy Ormerod
Dorothy Ormerod was born on the 31st December 1925 to Annie and Robert Hargreaves. Of her seven siblings, sadly only Harry and Alice survived childhood. Dorothy married Herbert Ormerod, better known as Bert, at the Unitarian Church in Todmorden on 3rd June 1944. He was a navigator on a Lancaster...
Dugald (Dug) Fleming Brown
Dugald Fleming Brown (1943 – 2017) was born in Bellshill, Lanarkshire on 21 October, one of five children. After the death of his father, Dug, as he was known by, joined the RAF aged seventeen and was stationed in Germany, the UK, and Singapore. After he left the RAF, he...
Earle Nash
Earle Derek Nash (1932-2018) was born in Bedworth, Coventry. He grew up in the family sweet shop which his mother ran. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School. He had a career with the East Midlands Electricity Board and also worked at Rootes and Armstrong Whitworth. Derek, as he became...
Edward ‘Keith’ John
Edward ‘Keith’ John (1942 – 2018) was born on 30 April in Haverfordwest, the fifth of seven children. He worked as a fitter for the Gas board in Grangetown. Keith liked going on Mediterranean cruises with his wife and spending time with his family. He married Christine in 1967 and...
Edward (Ted) Arthur Swift
Edward (Ted) Arthur Swift (1923–2024) born on 13 February 1923, was the eldest brother to Ernie, Brian, Murray and Jen. Leaving school at 14, Ted had a variety of jobs: working in a bakery, a grocer’s shop, as a trainee gardener, postman, driving a laundry van. At the start of...
Eileen Walker
Eileen Walker (1926-2016) was born on 31 January and grew up in Stapleton, which was then a village outside Bristol. After serving in the Land Army during the war she worked at Kinzie’s department store and later became a psychiatric nurse at Barrow Gurney Hospital. Eileen absolutely loved to cook...
Elaine Kimber
Elaine Ann Kimber (1950 – 2019) was born Elaine Ashby, in Leicester on 14th March 1950. She had an older sister, Gillian, and younger brother, David. Her father died when she was nine. At school she excelled in all subjects and developed an aptitude for art and crafts. She was...
Elaine Murphy
Elaine Murphy (1963 – 2017) was born in Dagenham on 31 May, the youngest of three children. She worked in various careers, firstly in a children’s clothes shop and finally as a dinner lady. She enjoyed travelling around the world and spending time with her family. She met her partner...
Elaine Thomas
Elaine Thomas (1950-2019) was born in Accrington to Mary and Edward Dean. She had a younger sister, Annette. She attended Accrington Girls’ Grammar School and then Manchester College of Art. She was married briefly to a fellow student, Mark Thomas, in 1971. In 1973, Elaine became a fine art lecturer...
Elizabeth Anne Bather
Elizabeth (Liz) Anne Bather (1961- 2022) was born in Paddington, London on 29th August 1961 to Blodwen and Lloyd Wynne Bather, a sister to Glenda and Paul. After attending Sarah Siddons School in Paddington, Liz spent all her life living in the Notting Hill area of West London. She worked...
Elizabeth Rosenthal (Dr)
Elizabeth Eva-Marie Rosenthal (1927 – 2019) was born in Berlin in June 1927 to Henjo and Eleonore. Her father had to leave when she was five. After several months hiding in a basement, she escaped to England in 1939 via the kindertransport scheme and was placed with a family in...
Ella Booker
Ella Booker (1983 – 2021) was born Helen Demeter Imogen Booker on 17th February 1983 to Julia and Alex. She grew up in Clapham, London, in a very creative community. In 2000 Ella took part in the Millennium Challenge, climbing Mount Snowdon and walking to Land’s End. Ella was a...
Elsie Christine Hart
Elsie Christine Hart was born 25th December 1920 in Shoreditch, the eldest of six, Gladys, Dolly, Jim, Evelyn and Ann. Her father James Webb worked at Odham’s Press in Fleet St then the family moved to Cranham in Essex where the children enjoyed growing up in the countryside. She and...
Elsie Penfound
Elsie Penfound (1919 – 2017) was born Elsie Johns in Plymouth on 28 June. She was the middle child of five. She worked as a waitress before her marriage to George in 1943. They had two children: John and Julia. Elsie used her artistic talent to make pottery animals for...
Emma Louise Morley
Emma Louise Morley (1979 – 2021) was born on 11th May 1979 to David and Sheila, the elder sister of Phil. Growing up in Birmingham and Dudley, Emma attended King Edward’s Sixth Form College. She went to Bradford University, gaining a Degree in Environmental Management followed by a Diploma of...
Enid Ashton
Enid Ashton (1922 – 2018) was born Enid Stott in Blackley near Manchester on 11 October. She began working for Barclays Bank and then during World War Two she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service. In her later life, she ran a greengrocers with her husband John for many years....
Enid Ellis
Enid Ellis (1933 – 2024)) was born in Hyde Terrace Nursing Home, Leeds to Freda and Clifford Jenkins the eldest sister to Muriel and Sheila. Enid attended Queens Road Infants School, Brudenell School and after passing her 11 plus, Thoresby Girls’ High School, Leeds. During her childhood Enid was a...
Eric Daniel
Eric Daniel (1933 – 2023) was born on 30th November 1933 to Albert and Margaret Daniel. After leaving school at 14, Eric became an apprentice joiner in Osnath pram works until he was called up for National Service in 1952. As a gunner in the Royal Artillery he was initially...
Eric Farmer
Eric John Farmer (1930–2018) was born in Barry, the eldest son of George and Iris, and the elder brother of Kenneth and George. Eric enjoyed the Air Training Corp but his asthma prevented him from joining the RAF. After leaving Gladstone Road School, he started an apprenticeship with study at...
Ernest James ‘Jim’ Partridge
Ernest James ‘Jim’ Partridge (1939-2018) was born on 15 August in Ynysmeudwy, one of two children. His father died when he was very young and he chose never to speak about his childhood. He worked briefly as a machinist, where he met Wendy whom he married in 1959. He applied...
Ernest Powell
Ernest Walter Powell (1931 – 2020) was born in Cardiff on the 18th July 1931 to Walter and Queenie. He had two younger siblings, Trevor and Barbara. They grew up during the second world war with their father away in the army for long periods. Ernest attended Splott Road School,...
Evelyn Hills
Evelyn Hills (1916 – 2017) was born Evelyn Morgan on 13 May in Dulwich, the eldest of two girls. Evelyn enrolled on a secretarial course and then went to work for the Westminster Bank. During World War Two, she was an active fire watcher. Evelyn was a keen gardener and...
