The house was used as a hospital during both World Wars. Here we see WW1 wounded soldiers with Dr Thorp. Later the building was a museum, and was demolished in the 1950s.
William Blaylock and Edith Mason were married at Heptonstall Methodist Chapel, 13th November, 1940. This is a studio picture of the couple, a practise that was quite normal in the days.
Post recruitment. During the war Mary worked as a teleprinter operator for the ATS, moving to France with the Americans SHAEF in 1944. She was amongst the first lot of women to go to Paris after the Germans left.