Daughter of Clara and George Crabtree, who lived at Birchencliffe and owned a corduroy factory. She married Rev. Brian Holt who was minister at Hebden Bridge Methodist Church for some time. They went to live in Canada.
Gladys lived most of her life in Garden Square, Hebden Bridge. She went to school in Hebden Bridge. She spent all her working life from 1921 at J.B.Hoyle & Co. where she began work as a sewer, making heavy duty garments for industrial & military…