Black Diamonds (72 page)

‘We saw it through a gauze …’: author’s interview with Armand Smith, June 2004.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

p. 203 ‘
My grandfather
…’: author’s interview with Joyce Smith, April 2004.

‘We were very happy …’: ibid.

‘The thing that …’: ibid.

p. 204 ‘
One morning
…’: ibid.

‘It was a child’s dream …’: ibid.

p. 205 ‘
I longed to meet him
…’: ibid.

‘If Peter …’: ibid.

p. 206 ‘
Armand and I
…’: ibid.

‘They thought …’: author’s interview with Lady Barbara Ricardo, November 2005.

p. 207 ‘
When the monthly nurse
…’: author’s interview with Joyce Smith, April 2004.

‘If you call a baby …’: ibid.

‘His birth meant …’: author’s interview with Lady Barbara Ricardo, November 2005.

‘Billy spared no expense …’: Roy Young,
The Big House and the Little Village
, Wentworth Garden Centre, 2000, p. 47.

p. 208 ‘
One showed
…’:
Mexborough and Swinton Times
, 18 February 1911.

‘Anything Peter wanted …’: author’s interview with Lady Barbara Ricardo, November 2005.

‘He rode out …’: author’s interview with Charles Doyne, June 2004.

p. 209 ‘
We were all mad about
…’: interview with Elfrida, Countess of Wharncliffe, recorded by Roy Young in 1977.

‘At the tender age …’: article by Peter Fitzwilliam,
Hunting
, December 1936.

‘In the nursery …’: author’s interview with Joyce Smith, April 2004.

p. 210 ‘
There was
…’: ibid.

‘Then, at that sort …’: cited in
The Country House Remembered
, ed. Merlin Waterson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985, p. 115.

p. 211 ‘
There was quite a party
…’: author’s interview with Charles Doyne, June 2004.

‘One of the young men …’: author’s interview with Joyce Smith, April 2004.

‘They’d had a paper chase …’: author’s interview with Bert May, November 2004.

p. 212 ‘
It was terribly difficult
…’: author’s interview with Joyce Smith, April 2004.

‘He was very keen …’: author’s interview with Charles Doyne, June 2004.

‘He had many girlfriends …’: author’s interview with Lady Barbara Ricardo, March 2004.

‘He used to take her …’: author’s interview with Griffie Phillips, September 2004.

‘In the 1920s …’: author’s interview with Robert Tottie, former deputy agent at Wentworth, August 2005.

p. 213 ‘
Lordie was a bit of a lad
…’: author’s interview with Bert May, November 2004.

‘You didn’t marry a person …’: author’s interview with Peter Diggle, November 2005.

‘My mother …’: author’s interview with Joyce Smith, April 2004.

p. 214 ‘
The fact of my illegitimacy
…’: Fred Smith, ‘We asked them for bread,’
Ivanhoe Review
, No. 8, Summer 1995, Archives and Local Studies Section, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council.

p. 215 ‘
We thought
…’: author’s interview with Joyce Smith, April 2004

p. 216 ‘
It was a lot of rot
…’: author’s interview with Gracie Woodcock, June 2004.

‘It weren’t her face …’: author’s interview with Walt Hammond, July 2005.

p. 217 ‘
The gatekeepers were expected
…’: author’s interview with Gordon Hempsey, August 2005.

‘He used to haunt …’: author’s interview with Joyce Smith, April 2004.

p. 218 ‘
During the school
…’: testimony of Mrs Bradley, 18 October 1988, Archive, Wentworth Estate Office.

‘He is a backward …’: extract from Admissions Register, Royal School for the Deaf, Derby, Admission No. 766.

p. 219 ‘
According to his
…’: author’s interview with Lily Fletcher, February 2006.

‘A Statement of Particulars …’: n.d., Archive, Wentworth Estate Office.

‘I was frightened …’: author’s interview with Lily Fletcher, February 2006.

p. 220 ‘
Dear Mother
…’: letter written with Lily Fletcher by Edgar Bower to his dead mother, 16 October 1988, Archive, Went-worth Estate Office.

‘When he told me …’: author’s interview with Lily Fletcher, February 2006.

p. 222 ‘
I believed Edgar
…’: ibid.

‘The doctor sent …’: author’s interview with Gracie Wood cock, June 2004.

‘It was the love …’: author’s interview with Lily Fletcher, February 2004.

p. 223 ‘
When we pulled up
…’: ibid.

‘Everybody …’: letter written with Lily Fletcher by Edgar Bower to his dead mother, 16 October 1988, Archive, Wentworth Estate Office.

p. 224 ‘
We went up
…’: author’s interview with Lily Fletcher, February 2006.

‘They knew …’: ibid.

‘I moved back home …’: letter written with Lily Fletcher by Edgar Bower to his dead mother, 16 October 1988, Archive, Wentworth Estate Office.

p. 225 ‘
Such matters
…’: Guy Canby to Edgar Bower, 5 October 1989, Archive, Wentworth Estate Office.

‘Mr Broadhead …’: memo to Guy Canby, 13 May 1996, Archive, Wentworth Estate Office.

‘It’s a matter …’: author’s interview with Elizabeth Wilde, February 2006.

p. 226 ‘
He ain’t buried
…’: author’s interview with Gracie Woodcock, June 2004.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

p. 229 ‘
On the evening
…’: War Office Situation Report No. 1, 3 May 1926, Public Record Office, Kew, WO 30/143.

‘Everything I care for …’: Stanley Baldwin, House of Commons Emergency Debate, 3 May 1926.

‘Home Office Directorate …’: Keith Jeffrey and Peter Hennessy,
States of Emergency
, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983, p. 6.

p. 230 ‘
Enemies
…’: Winston Churchill, House of Commons Emergency Debate, 3 May 1926.

‘The owners are the provokers …’: House of Commons Emergency Debate, 3 May 1926.

p. 231 ‘
I do believe
…’: George Lansbury, House of Commons Debate, 25 June 1926.

‘In 1919 …’: Lloyd George at an interview with the leaders of the Triple Alliance, quoted in Jeffrey and Hennessy,
States of Emergency
, p. 7.

p. 232 ‘
It should be impressed
…’: secret telegram from War Office to GOC-in-C, Home Commands, 3 May 1926, Public Record Office, Kew, WO 30/143.

‘Commanders in the field …’: ibid.

‘The M.T. Drivers …’: telegram, 2 May 1926, ibid.

‘There are very few light …’: Stanley Baldwin, House of Commons Emergency Debate, 3 May 1926.

p. 233 ‘
All of Europe
…’: cited in letter from Lady Sybil Middleton to Lady Halifax, 24 May 1926, Hickleton Papers, Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York A2.280.2.

‘Clip-clop …’: Roger Dataller (pseud.),
From a Pitman’s Note-book
, Jonathan Cape, 1925, pp. 126–7.

p. 234 ‘
GEORGE REX
…’: the King’s Proclamation, cited in R. Page Arnot,
The Miners: Years of Struggle
, George Allen & Unwin,1953, p. 421.

p. 235 ‘
If tha’ goes out
…’: author’s interview with Walt Hammond, August 2005.

‘You must …’: author’s interview with Gordon Scott, August 2005.

p. 236 ‘
There was never a major
…’: Roger Dataller (pseud.),
A Yorkshire Lad
, unpublished memoir.

‘He was generous …’: author’s interview with Jim McGuinness, August 2005.

‘Wages-wise …’: author’s interview with Ralph Boreham, August 2005.

‘We knew our place …’: author’s interview with Charles Booth, April 2004.

p. 237 ‘
Bearing each a
…’: Dataller,
A Yorkshire Lad
.

‘Here we are …’: Sir W. Riddell to Lady Dorothy Halifax, 9 May 1926, Hickleton Papers, Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York, A2.280.2.

‘Yesterday 20 tanks …’: Lady Manners to Lady Dorothy Halifax, 6 May 1926, ibid.

‘Its citizens …’: Sir W. Riddell to Lady Dorothy Halifax,9 May 1926, ibid .

p. 238 ‘
I don’t think
…’: Mabel, Countess Gray, to Lady Dorothy Halifax, 12 May 1926, ibid.

‘5th Infantry Brigade …’: War Office Situation Report, Public Record Office, Kew, WO 30/143.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

p. 239 ‘
Broad Yorkshire
…’: author’s interview with Walt Hammond, miner from New Stubbin colliery.

‘Twenty-four hours …’: Roger Dataller (pseud.),
A Yorkshire Lad
, unpublished memoir.

‘Caesar had been …’: Roger Dataller (pseud.), ‘From a miner’s journal’,
Adelphi
magazine, vol. II, No. 2, July 1924.

p. 240 ‘
The horses knew
…’: Jim Bullock,
Bowers Row
, EP Publishing,1976, p. 195.

‘My father …’: interview with Elfrida, Countess of Wharncliffe, recorded by Roy Young in 1977.

p. 241 ‘
My mother
…’: Bullock,
Bowers Row
, p. 184.

‘When I went …’: ibid.

p. 242 ‘
If the mice
…’: ibid., p. 37.

‘There used to be …’: ibid., p. 215.

‘Despite everything …’: ibid., p. 184.

‘There is no night …’: Dataller, ‘From a miner’s journal’.

p. 243 ‘
As soon as
…’: Bullock,
Bowers Row
, p. 185.

‘He had finished …’: ibid., p. 179.

p. 244 ‘
When my father
…’: ibid., p. 177.

‘I have never …’: ibid., p. 184.

p. 245 ‘
When I got
…’: ibid., p. 185.

‘The ponies were put …’: ibid., p. 196.

p. 246 ‘
The pony was always
…’: Fred Smith, ‘We asked them for bread’,
Ivanhoe Review
, Rotherham Archives and Local Studies Section, No. 8, Summer 1995.