b'The Clifford SistersKate & Mike Pratt (based on a meeting with Flo and Greta on 17th July 2005)Greta (on the left) with Flo who is holding her card from the QueenM rs Florence Herrington of Knaresboroughthat she would not let her girls have it, and kept them has recently celebrated her 100th birthday.fastened in, against the advice of other mothers, and In discussion with her younger sister, Greta, shethey didnt catch it. It was as though being ill was a bit remembered her girlhood in Bishop Wilton betweenof a disgrace; when Elsie Dale got scarlet fever and the years 1907 and 1917. had to go to the Fever Hospital, Dorothy was smeared The Clifford family lived at West End Farm whereall over with goose grease because her skin was so their father, Joseph, was the hind or farm managerflakybut illness was never admitted to.for Mr William Jebson who lived in Pocklington whereOpposite West End at Highfield House was a he practised as a vet. Flo was 2 when the familylarge family of Roses; Violetta Rose was 6 years older moved to the village, with a younger sister, Dorothy;than Flo, and walked her up to school. Flo vividly Greta was born a couple of years later. The Jebsonsremembers her first day at school, aged 4. After a bit had started breeding Large Black pigs at West Endof play in the girls yard, they all lined up against the in 1903, and when a photographer came to take awall to go in, with Violetta near the front and Flo at the picture of a prize-winning pig, Mrs Clifford asked himback. Violetta was waiting for her in the cloakroom to take a photo of her daughters, in the little enclosedto help her with hanging up her coat, then took her yard at the backthe place they were confined to into the Infants Room where Mrs Bramley sat her in a later childhood if they had been naughty (see followingdesk and gave her a bowl of painted wooden beads page). to stringshe thought it was wonderful. They would Their mother was very strict with the girlstheygo home for dinner, then run back to have time for a had to be in bed at 6 oclock, before Dad came inlittle play before school started again.for his tea. They slept 3 in a bed, and there was noFor writing, initially they used a slate and slate reading or playing around allowed. When there waspencil, with a damp cloth to clean it for the girlsthe an outbreak of measles in the village, Mother saidboys would use their sleeve! Then they would use a BULLETIN 12 199'