The SLACK family c1910
Jo Williams writes:
"....The SLACK family when living at Water Lane, Middleton:
Left: William (c 23 Sep 1898), Charles (c 2 Mar 1894),
Mary Rose (nee BROOKS c 29 Sep 1870), John SLACK (c 2 Mar 1870),
Herbert (c 30 Sep 1896), John (Jack) in pushchair (born 1908),
Florence (c 29 Apr 1903), Doris.
Charles, the eldest, became a train driver and went to live in
Oldham, where he married and had one daughter: she still lives there.
Herbert lived in Middleton, married and had one daughter who still
lives in Derbyshire. She is married with a family.
William fought in WW1 and returned to Middleton a much-changed person
from the comic who had left the village; he never spoke about his
experiences in France. He was engaged, but quarreled with his fiancee
and neither ever married. He lived in Hall House with the family and
worked at Masson Mill and later in the train works in Derby. When his
sister Doris married and moved to Bolsover, in 1948, he moved to
Skegness to live with his sister Florence and her family.
During WW2 Doris delivered the post in Middleton and looked after
her father, John SLACK,until he died in 1944. Mary Rose SLACK died
21 Nov 1932.
Florence also worked at Masson Mill and described how she and her
friends used to walk over the fields to get there and how,during the
winter, the girls used to walk in the footprints left in the snow
by the boys. She met her husband when she ran into him on her
bicycle outside Middleton Post Office. When they married she went
to live in Bolsover. She had one daughter.
Jack married and had one daughter; they lived in Bolehill, before
moving to Matlock. His daughter married and lives in Derbyshire
near her family.
"....The SLACK family when living at Water Lane, Middleton: Left: William (c 23 Sep 1898), Charles (c 2 Mar 1894), Mary Rose (nee BROOKS c 29 Sep 1870), John SLACK (c 2 Mar 1870), Herbert (c 30 Sep 1896), John (Jack) in pushchair (born 1908), Florence (c 29 Apr 1903), Doris.
Charles, the eldest, became a train driver and went to live in Oldham, where he married and had one daughter: she still lives there.
Herbert lived in Middleton, married and had one daughter who still lives in Derbyshire. She is married with a family.
William fought in WW1 and returned to Middleton a much-changed person from the comic who had left the village; he never spoke about his experiences in France. He was engaged, but quarreled with his fiancee and neither ever married. He lived in Hall House with the family and worked at Masson Mill and later in the train works in Derby. When his sister Doris married and moved to Bolsover, in 1948, he moved to Skegness to live with his sister Florence and her family.
During WW2 Doris delivered the post in Middleton and looked after her father, John SLACK,until he died in 1944. Mary Rose SLACK died 21 Nov 1932.
Florence also worked at Masson Mill and described how she and her friends used to walk over the fields to get there and how,during the winter, the girls used to walk in the footprints left in the snow by the boys. She met her husband when she ran into him on her bicycle outside Middleton Post Office. When they married she went to live in Bolsover. She had one daughter.
Jack married and had one daughter; they lived in Bolehill, before moving to Matlock. His daughter married and lives in Derbyshire near her family.
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Memories as described by Florence SLACK's daughter
My mother told the story that when DH Lawrence lived with Frieda in the
cottage along the road past their house the children were told to run
away from him. (This is used in Lady Chatterley's Lover). Lawrence
used a shop in the village owned by one of her Uncles (Peter?) and the
tale went that Lawrence offered Peter a copy of Lady Chatterley, which
he refused!
I used to visit Hall House when very young. My memories are very hazy,
but I do remember the gleaming floors and the black leaded fireplace
with its oven. There was no electricity and the ground floor rooms were
lit with oil lamps and candles were used upstairs. I have a slightly
squashed finger caused by the front gate swinging back and trapping my
finger between it and the wall.
The family also owned or rented a field above the village where the odd
cow and pigs were kept. They also grew a lot of their own vegetables
and were pretty self-sufficient.
I remember going on a picnic in Via Gellia (I called it my Jelly Wood
apparently) and also seeing it carpeted with bluebells. Magical!
As a child I always knew if visitors to our home were from Middleton
by the way they pronounced "to". My mother was never happier than when
talking to her sister Doris or other relatives (and there were lots of
them!) about the people in Middleton they remembered from their childhood.
In 1989 I visited Midddleton and found Hall House divided up into several
smaller dwellings. One was empty and across the lane at the front of the
house was an outhouse which still had the shallow stone sink that had been
there when I was a small child. The offending gate was also still the same.
It was during this visit that I was told that in a few weeks' time there
was to be a concert in the Methodist Church where my mother got married,
and I managed to take her to this. She also went to see a cousin,
Alice Southam(?) then. This was the last time she saw to her beloved
Middleton.
Jo Williams
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