Catalogue description FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS RELATING TO MRS BEDDER

Bedder, Mrs, fl 1980

• West Gorton, City of Manchester
• Clayton, City of Manchester

Mrs. Bedder, (nee Blount), born in Newton-le-Willows in 1922, one of four children (one sister, two brothers). Mother from Derby, father from Clayton, Manchester. Father a tailor at Burton's, then a commercial traveller, then, finally, in 1937, became manager of the Co-op at Chapel-en-le-Frith.

Mr. Bedder born in London in 1923, the second youngest of four children, (one sister, two brothers). His parents from Bolton : his mother a teacher at St. Michael's, Bolton; his father a driver for International Stores. Mr. Bedder Snr's work took the family to London, where he also ran a coach-hire service.

Mrs. Bedder met her husband in London whilst serving in the forces during World War II, he was a tool-maker and scout-master. They married in London, couldn't get a house, heard through the family of a vacant chip-shop in Bold Street, Moss Side, Manchester and moved to it in 1949. Mrs. Bedder to run the chip-shop, Mr. Bedder to work as an engineer at Metropolitan Vickers (now G.E.C.), Trafford Park, where he remains. They didn't like the chip-shop, moved to Chorlton, then to present address in 1972.

The photographs form what remained of a collection accumulated by Mr. Bedder's aunt Amy who died in 1974 or 1975.