The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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him a bed in the clothes basket. We began to cure bacon, drying it in the living room, hanging round the walls. One morning the said babe was asleep in the basket on a chair, the mother was behind the counter in the shop, she heard the babe squall and a big noise as of a fall. She hastened to the rescue, in her way was a high office stool and a tin 8 to 10 inches high standing upon the stool, she walked right over both without knocking either aside or down. I was in the shop, saw it done, a wonderful evidence of the power of maternal love. I fetched her to look at her achievement, it seemed incredible to us both but it was a fact, nearly 4ft high. A great political event about this time was agitating the Country, the question of ‘Parliamentary Reform’, the Abolition

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