People: Lea, Brenda

People: Lea, Brenda

  • Five girls

    Five girls

    Five teenaged girls named (from top left) Joyce Bowden, Betty Brogden, Hilda Brogden, Hilda Wilcox?, and Brenda Lea. Probably in Sowcar fields.

  • Seven Girls

    Seven Girls

    Seven girls pose in their summer dresses. Thought to be in Palmerston Street against the wall of Oak Bank mill, just to the left of the entrance, where the oil tanks were installed (see one over the wall). Today this is the entrance to Hamson Drive.

    The girls are named as (from top left) Hylda Brogden, Joyce Bowden, Jean Chadwick, Hilda Wilcox, Brenda Lea, Anne Crichton and Margaret Clay.

  • St John’s School, Sermons

    St John’s School, Sermons

    Children at St John’s School, Church Street, dressed up and carrying flowers for the Sermons ceremony, 1948

  • Choir, St Johns church

    Choir, St Johns church

    Tom Bailey, choirmaster. Harry Holland, verger