PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO MISS BROWN AND FRIENDS

Annie Brown was born in Ashton-under-Lyne in May, 1897. Her father, Thomas Edward Brown was a chemist and had a shop on the corner of Ashton New Road and Bank St. He originally came from Birmingham and moved to Manchester because of the shop. Her mother Mary nee Geering had had a boarding house in Aldershot she married and used to take in men from Aldershot Barracks.

Donor went to Ardwick Central School and from there on to Remmington College where she did shorthand and typing. Her first job was for the leading Scout Master in Manchester. The office was over Burtons (tailors) in Deansgate. He used to do all the national and overseas bulletins. She worked there until 1914 when it was closed because of the war.

She then went to work as general clerical assistant for Hale & Co. Electrical Engineers in Market St. Hyde. That closed down so c 1918 she went to Greengate in Salford but the language from the men in the flour Mill opposite was so bad that they found her another job in the Corn Exchange working for a jew, Rossenstock. He produced floor polisher but went bankrupt eventually because he gave all his money to the Palestine Affair, so in 1948 donor went to work for the Vaughan Crane Co. Ltd. in West Gorton and stayed there until she retired in 1968.