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The following are memories recalled by Ella Pugh, as recorded by Hanover Housing Association in their book 'Tale of the Century' published in 1999.
 This photograph (taken early in 1903) shows me as a baby with my family. When I was small, our toys were a whip and top, a skipping rope, marbles and checkers. My brothers didn't have a ball to kick around, they had a 'trash' which was newspaper rolled up tight and bound with string.
I started work in an office at 13 years old for 7/6d (37½p in today's money), and left to get married when I was 25.
My husband had been in the First World War. He got leave from the trenches to go to see his Mother who was in the WAALS in Queen Mary's camp in Calais.
 Both my brothers also fought in France, one returned after three years, the other we got just a notice to say he was wounded.
Our first house had gas mantles for lighting and a big fireplace which I had to black-lead. The fireplace had a side boiler for hot water which had to be decanted for baths with a ladling-can into a tin bath in front of a fire. It also had an oven in which I baked bread and cooked all our meals.
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