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Thanks I appreciate all the effort to look into this. It looks like back in the 1930s at the beginning of the Great Depression, an English widow wouldn't have got much more than 10/- a week for herself plus a per child supplement so, with only one child, that would be only £1/5/- a week in total...

Hi my grandmother received a Widows Pension with a 15/- a week supplement for one child in 1930 but, although her husband did volunteer and serve in WWI, she wasn't a war widow. Does anyone know what her weekly pension would have been? Thank you.

Thanks very much Mikejee. My grandfather's name was Ernest Bruce Free (1878-1929) and I've always wondered how he did it? He was the 5th of six children and the only one not engaged in a hard manual trade by age 14. (He had one sister named Florence.) The census for 1901 shows my grandfather as...

Sorry Hugh if I haven't quite mastered this thread business but that doesn’t sound quite right, as things were very tough for most in The Midlands in the 1930s, and whilst getting into the entertainment industry might always have been young John’s aim it’s always been unreliable industry for...

Any ideas as to how and where a poor boy could study science and become a manufacturing chemist between 1895 and 1900? My grandfather's entire family (i.e. both parents plus all six male siblings) worked at 'hard' labour trades (e.g. glass blowing, iron foundry work, etc.) but somehow he alone...

Born 1912 Sparkhill. Does anyone know how he eared his living before the 1940s when he became famous as an actor?