Today we return to the memoirs of Henry Hiley.
His mother Ethel (nee Heap) died in March 1923 when Henry was 4 years old. His father Harold then married Grace Annie Heyworth in December 1925 when Henry was nearly 7.
Father married again, I think that was in 1926. How on earth he persuaded any woman to take on a husband, five children, do the housework, and help with making the pies, I shall never know. Anyway she did, we all liked her. Perhaps it was better than being what you might call a war widow because so many women who should have got married - there were no men for them. Over a million British men had lost their lives in the 1914-1918 war. Father engaged Mrs Sutcliffe. She lived on the opposite side of the street, and she came in to help with washing up and a little bit of cleaning.
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| Henry with Grace Annie |
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| Grace Annie, Harold and Henry |
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| Harold and Grace Annie |
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