Her mother worked in a mill, her father was a fireman, and young Barbara Brothwood from ­Oldham, Lancashire, grew up with gritty survival instilled at the ­forefront of any professional ambition. “If you are a typist or a hairdresser, it’s in your hands,” she was warned by her parents. “They ...
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