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....
Eric Daniel
Eric Daniel 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 based in Oswestry...
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...
Fay Lima
Fay Lima (1934 – 2017) was born Fay Stokes in Barry on 15 February. She was the second of four children. She worked as an usher at the Theatre Royal and through this met her husband Gilbert. They had six children: Robert, Lena, Tony, Maxine, Margaret, and Nick. They later...
Flora Pearce
Florence Vera Pearce was born on 1st October 1916 in Brixton, London. She married her first husband, Fred, in 1937 and they had three daughters – two of whom died. They adopted a son and, after the war, had twin girls. During the war the family were evacuated to Somerset,...
Frances Winch
Frances Girbow Winch (1931–2019) was born in Coventry in 1931, the only daughter of Dinah and Arthur Girbow. Frances went to grammar school before studying History at Bedford College, London, after which she qualified as a teacher. Her first teaching job was at Thistley Hough School in Stoke on Trent...
Frank Edward Brown
Frank Edward Brown (1950 – 2017) was born in Ramsgate on 12 February, the eldest of three boys. He studied at the School of Architecture, following this with a Master’s degree from University College of London and a PhD from the Open University. Frank spent some time working as an...
Frank Guilfoyle
Frank Guilfoyle (1936 – 2020) was born on 12th January 1936. He lost his father when he was young and was raised by his mother, Mary and step-father, Joe. He was one of fourteen children. After leaving the local Catholic school, he worked as an apprentice projectionist and then made...
Frankie Karena Murison
Frankie Karena Murison (1956 – 2017) was born in Kingsbury, London on 28 December, the eldest of her mother’s four children. She joined the police at 18 before undertaking several other jobs with her last a role as Staff Welfare Officer at Varndean College. Frankie enjoyed musical theatre, walking, and...
Freda Sack
Freda Ann Sack (1951-2019) was born in Middlesex to Bernard and Betty. The family soon moved to Kent. She had a younger sister, Linda. Freda went to Maidstone College of Art to study Typographic Design. It was during this time that she met John, whom she married in 1972, a...
Freda White
Freda White was born in Yiewsley in Middlesex on 7th January 1927, the fourth of six children to Fred and Elizabeth Robinson. Growing up she enjoyed the freedom of the countryside and also experienced city life in Nottingham visiting her aunt and uncle. When Freda was 9 the family moved...
