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

Pat wrote.... 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. I believe this lady is Jean A. BEETLESTONE who married a Raymond V.BAGGOTT in December 1955, West Bromwich. Ray was born March quarter 1930 in West Bromwich.