My Mother was the youngest child of a youngest child. Born a Mawson, she married Private William Oddy of the east Yorkshire Regiment early in 1918. Willie was killed in action later that year in France and his name appears on the East York's Memorial in Beverley Minster.

There were no children of that marriage.

Mother married my Father in August 1922 and they went to live at 66 Bradford Road, Idle, where I has born on the 13th. of October 1923.

When we visited Idle in 1977 the house was still standing and: I think, occupied, but when we walked round there in 1979 the house and it's surrounding ones had been demolished to make way for new houses which are being erected as part of the area improve event scheme?

Mother, also true to the tradition, had keen a 慴urler & mender�.

The Job entailed finding and correcting faults in a woven piece of cloth.

Knots In the yarn are untied and woven into the cloth itself. In the period between my fourth and fifth birthdays we moved from Idle to the house in Thornbury where Mother had been brought up and where Grandad Mawson and his second wife, Grandma to me of course, lived, 28 Thorn- hill Place. This street is opposite the former Thornbury tram sheds, where Uncle George Cosworth worked, not far from the shop in Leeds rd, which Aunt Lizann and cousin Alice kept, roughly the same distance from the Thornbury Council school which I attended and within reasonable walking distance of Uncle Alfred & Aunt Amy Mowson, and Irene, in Lapage st, Bradford Moor and also Grandad & Grandma Rawnsly's place at 87 Curzon rd, also Bradford Moor.

My sister, Joan Kathleen was born at the Thornhill Place address on the 28th. of June 1933. I remember how thrilled I was and that I Invited My schoolteacher, Miss Davies home to see my baby sister.

There were a number of special events which took place, not necessarily all in that year but certainly around that time. We got the shop at Bierley. My Father after pushing a great heavy framed bicycle home from Bradford each day for several years had bought himself a new bike.

This was a special all weather model, almost entirely coated in black enamel to defeat the problem of rusting chrome, so prevalent in those days, and with a three speed sturmey-Archer hub. He had had it only a couple or weeks when it was stolen from outside Grandad Rawnsley place. It was a bad blow as that bike cost about 3 week's wages for my Dad. Dad bought a Motor-cycle. A 249c.c. Francis Barnett Cruiser both a villiers two stroke engine. This was the first and I would think, only clean motor cycle to be produced before the second world war. The engine crank-case and the gear box were encased in a metal shield on both sides of the bike. The mudguard were skirted well down the wheels and there were two leg shields which provided good protection against the weather. The general effect of there items was that you could, if you were so disposed, wear cricket flannels whiled motor-cycling and you could be sure that they would not get covered in oil as would be the ease with any other motor bike of the day. Besides providing transport for Dad between Thornbury and bierley, francis, as she was affectionately called, proved the means of going for the occasional outing and this was especial I have memories still of riding pillion ands referring to another motorist, telling Dad to beat him daddy. One not so pleasant memory associated with Francis is of one time when Dad omitted to have the usual ration of oil put in with the petrol and she seized up. We pushed her up all the hills from the other side of Guiseley to home. Meanwhile Mam was almost frantic wondering what had befallen us.

I got a new bike, a bsa with a back pedal brake and I got a baby sister.

The following year Mam & Dad bought a house in a terrace of houses called Mount Royal. This was 36 Bierley Lane, Bierley and of course this Made a big difference in not having to travel so far each day to the shop. I had got a scholarship to grange High school for boys and so it also made a big difference in the distance I had to travel to and from school. At Bierley I acquire a new set of pals, the chief of which was leslie shoesmith. I continued to go to the Maltby st, Sunday school and chapel a! Laisterdyke there I was in the boys Brigade, the 16 Bradford. I also went with leslie and the other Bierley gang to st johns bierley and there I aquired a familiarity with the Anglican service.