Yorkshire Dialect archive
Fred Hirst
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Fred Hirst
Fred was born in 1917, educated at the Council School and Technical College. Married with six children he worked in Textile Engineering from 1932 to 1937, then in Mining on Mechanical Maintenance from 1937 until he retired in 1978. During the second world war he served with the Royal Engineers and was a POW from 1942 to 1945.
