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Pat Mountfield is a member of our group here in the Back to Learning class in the Unemployed Centre at Westhead Avenue, Kirby. The following information was exchanged in a one to one session.
Pat was born in the inner city of Liverpool area of Everton. She attended Netherfield Primary School and left school at the age of fourteen. Pat considered herself good at Maths. This was to stand her in good stead while working with Littlewoods as a Pools clerk.
During the very heavy air raids on Liverpool when the Blitz resulted in her home being destroyed. Pat and her mother and family were all evacuated to the rural county of Shropshire. This traumatic move and upheaval all left an emotional mark on Pat. Her father died during this period. After six months away from the city, Pat became very home sick for Liverpool.
Another trip or move from familiar surroundings was a three weeks trip to North Wales on a farm where the landlady was very mean. Milk was being produced there from the cows, but when it came to providing some for cornflakes, at breakfast, it was used very sparingly.
As an adult, Pat was liable to be sent to do essential war work. Being so short in build, this did not prevent her in adapting to shifting and lifting heavy sacks of cattle feed at her placement. Pat does explain that she did enjoy this period of her life, believing that she was a vital part of the war effort and involved in the final outcome of the conflict.
Pat then met her husband in Liverpool, getting married there, but in 1955 they moved to Kirby, on the outskirts of the city. This more rural and very much more clean and modern outlay was to be the area where the couple would rear their family of two sons. Pat would be employed in various places, for example, factories, shops and as I said as a pools clerk. Her husband was, until he retired recently, a school janitor. Pat is also retired. This has given her time to become interested in the Local Pensioners Rights Committee鈥檚 work. However, Pat found that her knowledge of such procedures and the work involved was rather limited. Hence her attendance here in the class. Pat did take an interest in the Parent-Teachers Association while her sons did attend the school. But when they left she did not see any point in following up on this project.
Pat鈥檚 sons have both married and both divorced. One of her sons remarried. There is one of her sons living across the water in Wirral at Bebington.
Pat did not express any particular interest in any of the local football teams and also no interest in a church. She was a Methodist, at one time, but has drifted away.

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