The W & P Glass Negative Collection
Soldiers from the Leicestershire Regiment carrying out an identity check on the corner of the High St and Railway Street Chatham 23rd May 1944. The following Information came from Maureen Tierney in July 2010. “The lady holding the pram was my mum. Her name was Ellen May Kitney, though everyone knew her as Ethel. The two boys in the pram are my brothers, Reg who has now died, and Jackie, now 67, who lives at Borstal. The lady beside her in the glasses is my auntie Daisy Carey. I was born four years later. My mum was just 24 when that picture was taken. She was lovely and had long dark hair. My dad bought her the little suit she is wearing.
They lived in Skinner Street, Chatham, at the time. My dad, Jack Kitney, was her second husband. He worked at Ambrose’s, the greengrocers off The Delce in Rochester for 36 years, and was three months off his 92nd birthday when he died.
My mum had lots of jobs, mainly cleaning and fruit picking.” See more on our website @ https://www.warandpeace.uk.com
