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Volume 32 No. 12 10th June 2013
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Family trees are rooted deep in Brassington, a limestone village built by centuries of toil on, and beneath, the surrounding hills. For Annie Buckley, whom we interviewed back in 1990, her old stone cottage had been linked to her family since 1908, when it was bought at auction in the Miner’s Arms and paid for on the spot with seventy pounds’ worth of hardearned golden halfsovereigns. Annie, née Gould, was the daughter of a lifelong Brassington quarryman, whose own father had worked at Harborough brickworks. Her maternal grandfather, Joseph Repton, owned and worked a mine on Carsington hill into the early 1900s, just like his
father before him and his sons after him. By popular belief, beer gave good protection against lead poisoning, and Brassington was certainly well provided with pubs. Grandad Repton favoured the George & Dragon, now long closed, as are the Thorn Tree and the Red Lion. Only the Miner’s Arms and Ye Olde Gate are still open for business. Granny Repton led the traditional lifestyle of a leadminer’s wife, washing ore at the surface of the mine. Somehow she also found time to take in laundry for the Gell family of Hopton Hall, wheeling it home and back again along rough unmade lanes in a huge wicker basket. Annie’s dad was a Special Constable and on Saturday
nights he had to wind the church clock. Around midnight he would stoke up the church fire, returning around six o’clock to riddle out the ashes and have the building warmed up for the day’s services. His wife and daughter, meanwhile, had cleaned the church – as they did every Saturday night for some 30 years. Once a year they scrubbed the interior from end to end – ‘pews and all’. Hid in the potato patch Annie had attended the Primitive Methodist Chapel as soon as she could walk. Every child went to one of the three village Sunday Schools and each chapel held an annual tea party, nothing fancier than a choice of brown or white bread or currant bread and butter, washed down with tea. Wakes week was something else to look forward to, when everyone followed the band in procession around the village; the children were given a school tea party, and sports were held on Sports Croft Field, with prizes of a penny or so. In 1918, Annie Gould was given a Council School prize book for ‘Attendance and Progress’: 408 attendances out of a possible 413. Perhaps an early encounter with Attendance Officer Mr Fritchley had kept her on
her toes, for just after her 5th birthday he came looking for Annie because she hadn’t started school. She had heard of encounters with ‘the kidnapper’ and hid in the potato patch but not for long. Children ended their education at 13, having known only the one school. Attitudes of the day made it difficult for girls to break the mould of their mothers … and their mothers before them. Schoolmistress Miss Smith fought for Annie to become a teacher but mother, as usual, had the last word. The word was ‘no… because teachers don’t know how to work!’ In Continued on Page 12
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