Tilly Biggins

A Memory of Gristhorpe.

The previous writer mentionedTilly Biggins who was my uncles stepmother. I stayed with her many times when I was very young. She was born in Victorian times and still dressed in lace up boots, long skirts and big hats. No running water in the cottage just a pump in the back garden where she grew her own vegetables. Earth lavatory outside and all the cooking done on a fireside oven and irons in the living room. The water for her weekly bath was heated on the fire and the tin bath stored in the kitchen. She would prepare rabbit and pigeon which the locals had shot and left on her step as she had little money. She rode a bicycle well into old age, mostly to Leberston where her stepson lived. She looked severe but had a heart of gold. Fond memories.


Added 25 July 2020

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