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The medal to the right was presented to Betty Grindley, at the school Sports Day in 1935, as winner of the Senior Costume Race. Alma Beatrice Grindley aka “Betty” was born in Oldham in 1918, the youngest of 5 children to parents Walter Grindley and Jane Hough. Her father moved to Oldham, from the Isle of Man, in 1899 when he joined the reporting staff of the Oldham Chronicle. He died in 1920, when Betty was only 2 years old. |
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In the 1930’s Betty and her mother were living in Glossop. Another family connection with the town was that Betty’s Grandfather Thomas Grindley, a schoolmaster, taught at a local school in the early 1860’s before moving to the Isle of Man. |
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In 1939, Betty was working as a secretary for the Ministry of Work and Pensions, Sunlight House, Manchester. She later went to live in the Blackpool area and married Oliver Palmer in 1954. She worked for the Civil Service until her retirement at age 60, when she had reached the position of Higher Executive Officer. She died in 1997. |