Auntie Carrie...

 Caroline Jane Longrigg born in Harrington, Cumberland England 1910-1980.

 Second daughter of John Longrigg and Eliza Mary Williamson.

I have such fond memories of Carrie, my mother's older sister, foremost memory of her was her laugh, I can not remember a time I was with with her where she wasn't smiling or laughing.

Here she is (on the right) with my mother and her daughter my cousin Margaret.

Later years - picture of her as a cook at the nursery school she worked at.

My mother would take my sister Ethel and I to visit her on many Sunday afternoons or she would come and visit us.  She lived in Bolton, a town about an hours bus ride from us.

One cute thing she and my mother would do was swap house ornaments.  She would tell my mother she liked something and thought it would look nice decorating her fireplace, it usually went home with her.  Then when we would visit  her we would come home with something of hers.

Her life was not an easy one, as a very young girl maybe a teenager still she was put in to domestic service in the homes of others.  A very common thing for girls at the time who were not well educated and from poor families. I believe she did that until the time of her marriage.  That is where she learned to be the great cook she was.  We always ate good at her house.

As a teenager my friends and I would take the bus to Bolton on Saturday night occasionally so we could go ballroom Dancing at the Palais.

Typical row houses in Lancashire, England

 If we were too tired to ride the bus back home we were always welcome to stay overnight at Carrie's house.  We usually were awakened early by the sounds of the Salvation Army Band marching down the street and playing under the bedroom window.

She always sent us off with a good breakfast and a happy smile.  We miss you Carrie, thanks for the wonderful memories.