Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

My dad, also born 1921, may have known her. Is her maiden name known? How come she went to the USA?

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

Maiden name was "Bolton". Our family emigrated to the U.S. in the mid-1950s.

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

BBC Archive of World War Two written by Irene Bolton

Link BBC - WW2 People's War - My life and the war

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

WOW, I did not know this existed! I will have to send it to my sister who lives in Emmaus, PA, near Allentown. Thanks for posting! 1982? Wow again!

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

Sorry, a "senior moment". She didn't write this in 1982; she was eighty-two when she wrote it in 2003.

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

Where did the Boltons live ? I recall a plumber, Jack Bolton, who had a shop in BurnleyRd, around No 68 He was a scout master at St John's in the 50s.. Not married I think. Posting something on here about the family may be helpful, though I suspect that it may be necessary to ask the library for help if you cannot get in there

Check out addresses and names on the 1939 registration, just published on Find My Past

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

I don't know where Harry Bolton lived, but I will try to find out. After my maternal grandmother died in 1926 from a fall, I think, he palmed my mother off onto her grandmother (the tripe shop) and he remarried. His issue from that union came to Canada, and I am in touch with a cousin. Maybe I can find out more.

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

Denbighs was just up from the Boars Head, that side was odd numbers? i was born at 14 Burnley Rd across from Alan.E. Dents is how i know.

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

Denbighswas opposite the Boar's Head, next to a chipshop. Bolton's shop was near to the chipshop on the next block up, above Washington St

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

If you didn't know at the bottom of the page from Irene's story of My Life & the War there are two more you can read, The Walls Have Ears and Rescue by Coal Barge.

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

Thanks! I didn't notice! My sister tells me that she proofread the compositions after my mother wrote them circa 2003.

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

When we moved from 14 Burnley Rd to Dowry St, denbighs back door faced ours, that would be mid 50s, I knew the dad Vinny, and grew up with Christine, who also had a couple of younger brothers, if they were on the opposite side of Burnley Rd, then it was before then.

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

We are working on it. Not too ,many people around who remember, but on the 1911 census their birthplace is listed as Astley Bridge. In 1911 they were living at 23 Maple Street, Clayton-le-Moor. Sharples is also mentioned on other census as a residence.

In 1966 when Harry Bolton died, he was living in Clitheroe.

Apparently, he never owned; he rented. My cousin tells me that he and the family rented rooms in Craven Street in Accrington when Irene (my mother) was about 3 years old.

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

When I lived at 48 Dowry St, the back door that Cashman speaks of was perhaps that of Mr Smith, a joiner/funeral undertaker. He kept coffins in his back yard, sheltered from the weather in a workshop open to the elements The front of his premises looked like a shop

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

48 was near top of block below me Bob, facing the foundry, i was at 58.:)

Re: Irene Procter Davies, 1921 - 2015
 

Jack Bolton the plumber who had a shop in Burnley Road was for several years the groundsman at Accrington Cricket Club and after that I think he was groundsman at Church CC and Enfield CC. I think that he died about 20 years ago.