Poems from Sheffield

A miscellany of poems capturing Sheffield people. Of mixed Welsh Irish and Silesian origin Editha Morris was born in Derby in 1916; she had two sons: Adrian and Paul. She started working as a beautician when the family moved to Sheffeld in 1947; the family then lived successively in Broomhill Crosspool and Fullwood (that area known as Hallam – Sheffield West). She continued working as a beautician and also teaching elocution having obtained higher qualifications in both domains in London. Amongst other things she was a member of the Hallamshire singers.She later discovered her talent for poetry these poems having been written between 1986 and 1988. Although very well spoken herself she shows in her poems a talent for understanding and putting into words the way local Sheffield people speak. A report in the Derbyshire Evening Telegraph 10th January 1940 tells us: `GOLD MEDAL ELOCUTION SUCCESS: At the recent examination of the London Incorporated Academy of Music Edith Lucas was successful in passing the gold medal examination with 106 marks.’