Hi Everyone - running behind. Lyn, this bounced to me. Are you using an address other than that from which you subscribed? If you let me know offlist I can authorise you so that you can post from it as well - same goes for anyone else. You don't get extra messages, just means you can post from that e-mail address as well. Cheers Linda >From: "Evelyn Hall" <photolady@dodo.com.au> > >Actually, Kim..... > >The Bradford library did send me photocopies of articles from the Yorkshire >Observer, Telegraph and Argus newspapers after my email directed to the >Bradford City Council site was passed onto them :)))) I think it helped that >this particular person gave 52 years of his life, in total, to the library. > >Some of their response to my initial query was: >"Briefly, he seems to have been born in 1880/1881, possibly in the >Manningham area of the city. He became Chief Librarian in 1925 and retired >in 1946. His >death is reported in an article dated 11th March 1950. He left a widow, two >sons - Stanley Edmund and Ronald, and a married daughter whose name is >given as Mrs. Lightowler. He had an interest in local history, and the >library holds copies of several articles which he had published in the >Bradford Antiquary journal between 1912 and 1936. He was an Alderman, and >later Mayor in 1943." > >I haven't been able to find either Ronald or Mrs. Lightowler, but then again >I am more interested in the son, Stanley who married my husband's Aunt >Nellie. After having such a public figure for a father our Stanley seems to >have led a very private life. My husband seems to remember something about >Stanley being blind, but whether he was born that way or it was something >that happened later in life we don't know. We also know that Nellie and >Stanley were crossing a road at a pedestrian crossing when they were run >over sometime in the 80's. Nellie was killed outright and Stanley ended up >with two broken legs. They are buried at North Bierley cemetery, Buttershaw >in Bradford with Henry and his wife Mary, Stanley's first wife Madeline and >Nelly and Stanley's only son, Christopher. > >:) Lyn in Australia >