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 A
wonderful text has come to light! It was written in the early 1980s
by Enid Simpson, nee Oldfield, and it tells many stories of life
during her childhood days living in Kerridge. It provides a fascinating
insight into the life of a child in those far off days before the
world became 'modern'. The stories are put together with great
insight into the social life, living conditions, and daily activities
of the time.
The text has been provided by someone who doesn't know Enid Simpson
or the Simpson or Oldfield families. We would like to make contact
with Enid's family - we expect that Enid is no longer with us,
we think she would be around 100 years old by now.
We provide on this page an index into the stories, which
extend to over 27,000 words, and are all on additional pages!
The picture (left) is named as Enid Simpson in the Discovery Centre
picture collection, but of course we don't know if it is the right
Enid Simpson! If you know more, please contact
the webmaster.
Editing
The text we received was a poor photo-copy of an original which
had been typed on a manual typewriter. The typewriter had some
slightly damaged letters on it, particularly the letter 'm'. Rather
than re-type the whole document we used optical character reading
to convert the bulk of the text into editable computer text. However,
the poor copy and the number of faulty letters meant that a considerable
amount of editing was required to correct all the mistranslations.
There was also one paragraph that was partially unreadable and
we have done our best to re-draft this as near as possible in the
original words. It is hoped that this editing has not altered the
words used by Enid. Some of the spellings in the document were
American and these have been reverted to the normal English. Incidentally,
this might indicate that Enid went to the United States to live.
The photograph above shows a lady who could be said to have
an American look about her.
The stories had no overall title so we have added 'A Kerridge
Childhood'. One story had no title so we have added 'The Market'. |
