This section deals with events that happened before the 1930s before I was born. Much of the older family information was gleaned from my Ancestry website (Littlewood Tree full version) which now contains details on over 1100 people. In addition to some information about my grandparents and great grandparents, I have included some details of life as it was in Leeds during their lifetime around the turn of the century. when life was very hard and relatively short for many families