Lysette Elloway, speaking to Danny Howell, on the afternoon of Thursday 29 November 2007, said:
My grandfather Rowland Elloway and his wife, my granny, lived at Chapel Street. They had 13 or 14 children and my granny turned them all out of home, one by one. I was terrified of her.
My grandfather was a tailor, working for Mr. Foreman. By all accounts he was a very good tailor. He used to make the Cumberland hunting jackets.
My grandfather was a drunkard though, and he and granny would have a row, and he would disappear. He would be gone for weeks at a time. He used to run away with the fair. When he returned he was usually found by one of his children in the toilet.
My father ended up putting his father, my grandfather, in the Workhouse at Sambourne. We were living the other side of the Workhouse wall, at Lyme Avenue, at that time. We had moved up from Chapel Street to Lyme Avenue. I can remember one of dad’s sisters, one of my aunts, saying “We must get father out of the Workhouse, we can’t have him in there, the shame on the family.”
I can remember when I worked in Lucas & Foot’s, Mrs. Wheeler came in there and after I had served her, she said “I know your face, you’re a local girl aren’t you?” I said “Yes.” I told her my name was Elloway and that I had been brought up at Chapel Street. “Oh,” she said “Your grandfather, Rowland Elloway, he was a drunkard.” I said “Yes, my father told me that.”