b'Dorothy Mary Houfe, Daughter Arthur William Hollings Houfe (Hollie), SonDorothy was Arthurs first child. She was 8years old when her mother, Emily, died and 11when the family moved to Beechwood. She was educated at Bridlington High School.At Beechwood Dorothy (pictured here, aged 18) would be expected to help with all domestic duties, including churning butter by hand As a child sheHollie was baptised Arthur after his father and would be sent out to gather soft fruit from the gardenWilliam Hollings after a distant family member who (raspberries, loganberries, currants) and from the wildowned and drove stage coaches in Leeds. The only (brambles, elderberries) to make preserves. She alsoson of Arthur and Emily, he was 7 years old when collected unripe fallen walnuts for pickling. She helpedhis mother died and 10 when the family moved to with the day-to-day cooking and baking and learnedBeechwood in 1907. how to prepare game such as pheasant, partridge,As a boy he had duties on and around the farm rabbit, hare and pigeon.They also prepared a countryincluding keeping the woodpile well stocked with dish called frumity supposed to be nutritious forchopped wood. He enjoyed roaming the hills and invalids (and slightly alcoholic?) fields around the farm with his fox terrier. He read Although Dorothy never fully recovered fromScouting for Boys by Lord Baden Powell and the death of her mother, and was very unhappy atpractised tracking and fire lighting skills as a Lone boarding school (except when playing hockey), as sheScout as there were not enough boys in the area to grew up she learned the graces of an Edwardian lady,form a troop. He was educated at Pocklington School wore fashionable clothes and visited neighbours andwhere he seems to have enjoyed his time as a boarder cousins.She went horse riding, drove a pony andespecially the cricket (see picture above, c1910) and trap, had a bicycle, looked after the pet donkey whichhaving to gain entrance through a window following was kept for the younger visitors, and cared for thesome escapade after lights out. motherless lambs. Hollie was conscripted to the army in 1918 but When hobble skirts were all the rage Dorothyhe was discharged 3 weeks later; he was needed to found it impossible to climb into the trapin the endmanage the farm as his father was disabled and food her brother had to lift her in and teased her about itproduction was a vital war effort.for evermore. For cycling she wore a short skirt thatAs he got older he took on more responsibilities on showed her anklesit shocked the workmen as shethe farm.He ploughed the land with horses (Shire and wore light stockings and it looked as though she hadSuffolk Punch) and later with a tractor. He had to get bare legs! up early every morning to attend to the milking and It is thanks to Dorothy that so many family letters,feeding of stock. He delivered baby pigs and stayed photographs and documents have survived.BULLETIN 3 35'