Chris Rowley, We had everything: Index
Contents
- Introduction: Life in 1900
Map of Leigh 1900
The Fautly Sisters – Dorothy Fautly and Mrs Kath Johnson
Jack and Harry Lucas
The War Memorial
Bill Crocker and The Leigh United Charities
Dick Wood and Ivy Wood
Vicars of Leigh 1900-2000
Rev. Bill Simmonds and the Sales Family
May Pearson (Mrs M Everest)
Privies
The Leigh Institute and Village Halls
Alfred Houghton
Notice on the Village Green 1930
‘Barley’ Faircloth (Mrs Barbara Bear)
Cyril Selden
Francis Hamlyn – Farming
Richard Selling – Gamekeeping
Donald Hallett – Gamekeeping
Lord Hollenden
Winifred Ellis – Leigh Church School, with extracts
from the School Log by Walter Gibbons)
Bert Stubbins
Evelyn Coomber (Mrs E Hall) – The Brickmakers Arms
Joan Coomber (Mrs J Standen) – The Brickmakers Arms
Doris Walder (Mrs D Fay) – Greenview and Lealands Avenue
Phyllis Upfield
Jack Simmonds and the Titanic
Doris Ingram (Mrs D Dale) – A Leigh Childhood
Vera Ingram
Butchers in Leigh
Bob Whitehead – The Butcher’s Shop
Maurice Martin
Doreen Passingham (Mrs D Brooker)
John Banks – Garden Cottages
Molly Hayter (Mrs M Maidman) – The Forge
Horse Shoeing and The Green
Peter King – Blacksmith
Jill and Wendy Bullingham – The Forge
Joy Castell – The Women’s Institute
Mrs Ethel Ingram
Miss Friend: The Baker’s Daughter
John Knock – Sport in the Village
Harold Farrington – Cricket Ball Making
The Oldest Cricket Ball
Dennis Stolton
Dorothy Thompsitt (Mrs D Gibbs)
Archie Denton
Keith Denton
Ray and June Chadwick (Mrs J Smith) and Peter Smith
Monica Gray (Mrs M Patterson) – an Evacuee
A Memory of the Evacuees
Betty King (Mrs E Clark)
Morals over the Century
Ben Fagg – Bellringing
Arthur Lewis – Bellringing
Lady Bellringers
Don King
Growing up in Leigh in the Forties and Fifties
Bet and Joan Smith
Eric Batchelor
Daisy Kemp (Mrs D Batchelor)
Colin and Mary-Anne Stratton-Brown
Morgan Witzel
The Village’s View of Leigh 1999
Leigh School Children 1999
Map of Leigh 2000
Chris Rowley – The End of Century