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RNIB should be able to answer that one. Though the name has changed and probably the charity as a whole, the RNIB can trace its beginnings to 1868.

http://www.rnib.org.uk

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I don't have any idea how Mary lost her sight but I will contact the RNIB tomorrow. I believe she was also crippled.
From a human interest point of view my Grannie told me a story about herself as a young girl. The family was desperately poor and before she went to school she had to chop and bundle firewood that she would sell later in the day. Out selling one day, she and her brother found a half crown. They didn't tell anyone and bought fish and chips every day till the money ran out because she knew her father would take the money for drink. She said it was one of the few times they ever felt full.
How times change. All her life she was fairly hard up but tried to save a little. My mum always says that granny could make a good meal out of a dishcloth.

Her second husband, William Clare, who worked in the mill boilerhouse, was known as Chris for some reason. He retired at about seventy but was asked to go back for a while as they couldn't find a replacement. He did this and collapsed at work not long before he died. The millowners refused to pay the usual compensation because he had gone back after retirement age of his own free will.

I don't know if this has escaped your attention or not Cheryl, we have another member researching Pollards in Harle Syke.
This is the topic he started not that long ago.

http://briercliffesociety.co.uk/talkback/viewtopic.php?t=1081

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I have found an MI for a Parker Pollard. I will post it in the deaths section later along with other Pollard MI's

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