Thank you, Pat! What a lovely story. I watched a video interview of her and it showed the tapestry she made. In our love of history and our desire to gather enough information to picture the lives and places our ancestors lived, we sometimes forget that we are living through history in the making ourselves. What a gift that she is writing it all down, making it so much clearer to our descendants. The other evening I was telling my grandchildren that there was no TV when I was a child. I don't think they even believed me! Feeling Historical, Lois -----Original Message----- From: Pat Hayward <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, Mar 6, 2010 12:39 pm Subject: [Black Country] Baggott I know quite a few of you are interested in the name BAGGOTT. I wondered if you had seen the article in the 'The Weekend' the magazine that was inside 'The Daily Mail' last Saturday 27th February 2010. It was fascinating.. I glanced at it last week but only today did I sit down to read about Jean BAGGOTT. She was born in 1937 in the Black Country. She described her early life so clearly, The two-up two down terraced house in a street of seven factories. The outside toilet shared with neighbours, washday on Monday with Tuesday being ironing day using a sadiron, then when an electric iron was bought it had to be connected to a light socket because they did not have plug sockets. Her mother wearing rubber wellingtons so that she would not be electricuted. She remembered, going to the air-raid shelter only once and preferring to sit under the stairs when the sirens blew, listening to the planes going overhead. She also tells of the house and factories being bombed across the road, how her mother coped with rationing, her first banana and many more things that set my memory going. Perhaps you have come across Jean while doing your own research. She left school in 1952, married Ray when she was 18 and had two children. When her father, brother and husband died she decided to work on a tapestry of her life. A masterpece.!! When that was finished she moved to Warwick to take a History Degree at Warwick University. What a clever woman. I'll certainly look out for her book as I'd love to read more. Regards Pat ------------------------------------- The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message