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Marjorie Holdsworth, Miss Oulton and Woodlesford in July 1939. She won the contest at the annual garden party organised to raise funds by the Oulton-with-Woodlesford Hospital Committee. It was held in the grounds of Eshald House, home of Dennis Walter Hargreaves, the manager of Water Haigh colliery. Marjorie’s mother, Alice Lee, was the daughter of quarryman Ned Lee and had grown up living on New Row off Quarry Hill. In 1919 she married Wilfred Holdsworth from Holbeck. He was a presser in a tailoring factory in Leeds and they had probably met when Alice was working as a machinist before Wilfred joined up to serve with the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment during the First World War. Marjorie was born in 1920 but her mother died when she was just a year old. When this photograph was taken she was living with her uncle, newsagent Ernest Lee, and his family at 40 Aberford Road. After her marriage in 1941 Marjorie moved away from the village.
