My Memoirs
by Thomas Yates
Reproduced with kind permission by his sons Jack and Joe Yates
Supplied by Peter Molyneux
Here are the memoirs of Thomas Yates telling of his life from birth near Wigan, moving to Skelmersdale in the early 1900's, his spell in the Yorkshire, Skelmersdale and local coalmines, and working a smallholding. This is an excellent story and captures the life and conditions of that time.
Contents:
Chapter 1: My early years
Chapter 2: Starting work and Skelmersdale
Chapter 3: Pastimes and Glenburn Rovers!
Chapter 4: Sandy Lane and Sports
Chapter 5: Courting and The War
Chapter 7: Job to job - pit to pit
Also read "My Memoirs" by John (Jack) Yates, Tom's son in the John Yates Memoirs book |