Waddington’s men and boys of WW1
First to leave, unmarried boys and men: brickyard labourers, brick makers, clay miners who cut the local blue, ironstone quarry workers with their ridge-top rail-line running down to Station Road. These were the chirpy lads who’d swung on railway gates, watched the loading of coal, crops, cattle. The apprentices, wagoner’s boys, plough boys once scrumpers Read more…