This section deals with the life of my family during the Thirties when we lived in a pleasant detached house in Adel on the outskirts of Leeds. Both my parents worked full time, were very successful in their respective professions and business and both had full social lives mainly focused on The Leads Amateur Operatic Society. Hollycroft our house was run by a very able housekeeper, a young maid and a gardener.
It was a very comfortable life compared with that of many families in the UK. It must have been a surprise when, in 1932, my mother became pregnant with me at the age of Forty Two – some 16 years after Douglas her first child.
My parents are described briefly and life as it was in our family at Hollycroft in the Thirties. From the early Thirties, my parents also owned a pleasant semi-detached house in Filey on the East coast which we used for holidays and some weekends. Happy times at Filey are described – apparently little affected by the social disturbances in the UK at the time..
The schools I attended in this period are mentioned – The Leeds Modern in North Leeds, Miss Davis’s Richmond House in Headingly.
Also, there is an interesting transcript of a quite detailed interview my grandson, Benjamin Haines, recorded with my brother Douglas Littlewood about his life in the Thirties and his experiences as an army Major during the Second World War.