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First World War
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These four diaries - there is no diary for 1916 - cover the majority of the period of the First World War, from 1914 to 1918. They introduce grandad, who was just 16 when war broke out, and also his parents and siblings. Grandad worked in his father's shoe business in Kirkby in Ashfield and the diaries give an insight into his work and family life, including family involvement in the local Primitive Methodist chapel. The diaries provide detail of where the family lived and worked in East Kirkby and also of