Pages 1-16. At the front of this chapter there are photocopies of some photographs, including: L J S’s mother's house at Holland on Sea, Essex, circa 1956; John Wardle Slater [L J S’s father, 1892-1931], August 1931; Elizabeth Dalton, née Bowman [L J S’s maternal grandmother, 1857-1909], taken circa 1905 by Wright & Co in Blackburn or Oldham; John Joseph Dalton [L J S’s maternal grandfather, 1855-1932], taken circa 1905 by Wright & Co in Blackburn or Oldham]; and photographs of bomb damage at Cosham, Hants., 1941.
This chapter covers L J S’s earliest memories and some family history, including: John Joseph Dalton, who was ‘active in his youth in founding the Co-operative movement’; Lucy Dalton, L J S’s mother, who studied Classics at Manchester University and was involved in a minor suffragette riot at Whitworth Hall, Manchester in 1914; L J S’s childhood in Parkstone, Dorset; memories of the total eclipse of the sun in 1927; and the family move from Dorset, where John Slater had been an industrial chemist at a government establishment at Holton Heath near Wareham, to Portsmouth, where he became Deputy Admiralty Chemist at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1928.