MILDRED MAYER October 1927 with her son ERIC Jnr & Grandson JAMES
Mildred: It snowed when I got married, 22nd of December 1951 at the registry office on Deansgate, Jacksons Row. I was so excited planning the wedding I hadn’t realised that it was so near Christmas. It was through my Mum that I met Eric in the first place. I left school on a Friday when I was fourteen in 1941; on the Monday I started work in a little bakehouse with a shop. One side was the cakes and bread the other side was sweets. I worked there until I was twenty-one. Mum and I lived in Marley Place in Harpurhey with my Grandma and it was Grandma who looked after me until she died when I was seven. Mum worked at the CWS Biscuit Works in Crumpsall . They said that she had a job for life because she had a bad accident to her hand. They gave her the easy job in the cellar. At 21 I managed to get a job there packing the biscuits. Mum had mentioned this young man Eric, who would get her a cup of tea and something to eat lunch time and pass on the newspaper. The other lads started pulling his leg saying, ‘next thing you know you will be going out with Annie’s daughter!!’ He said, ‘Annie hasn’t got a daughter’. ‘She has’ they said. The day I met him he tried to throw the paper to my mum, but it went askew and hit me on the eye and that is how we first got talking. For Christmas they had decorated the cellar. During the dinner break I would go down with Eric to talk to my mother.
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