A LICE POTTER, in Darlington, writes about Emilie Hawkes Marshall, the pioneering journalist who battled prejudice to become the Daily Mail’s first female reporter and the Daily Telegraph’s first woman’s editor.
As Memories told last week, Emilie was born at No 2, Larchfield Street, Darlington in 1882.
“I was also born in Larchfield Street in this block of houses, though at the other end in No 16,” says Alice.
“It was the home of my grandparents, James and Alice Scott, and it was where they raised their five children.”
No 16 was next to the shop on the Powlett Street corner.
“We lived in No 30 Duke Street, now the Oven restaurant, and would pass this terrace every day on our way to St Augustine’s School.
Quite often we would call on my grandma at No 16 and she would give us a penny for sweets which we would nip next door and spend on a bag of sherbet or four chews or maybe even what seemed like a piece of wood but was really a liquorice stick.
“It was with great sadness that I returned to Darlington after living away to find these houses and the corner shop were all gone, so it was good to see the photo.”
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