JACK HURT

Born in Sheffield 18th May 1916

Died 17th September 1980 aged 64

After Jack left school he went to work for Johnson's  who owned a small bakery shop at 199 London Road

It was here he met Vera Biggin who was a shop-assistant at Johnsons.

Jack was called up to serve in the army and was stationed in the Orkneys where his baker's skills were utilised. Whilst he was on leave from his 4 year enlistment he married Vera on 18th December 1945: In the right hand photo below the people are, from left to right: Harry Hurt (Jack's brother), Millie Hurt ( Vera's sister), Jack and Vera, and Vera's father.

on Vera

Jack once told me that it was so hot in the Army cookhouse where he worked that he could consume 20 pints of beer a day. After the war ended and he returned home money was tight and his liking for drink disappeared. At that time they resided at a small house in Summerfield Street.

They had just one child, Patricia, who was born on 7th March 1951

The photo in the centre, above, was taken at Bridlington in 1963. The other two could be Bridlington or Rhyl.

  on Tricia

He enjoyed playing snooker with his pals at the Star and Abbeydale cinemas, (left hand photo). I played several times with him at a snooker hall in Heeley.

Baldness in the HURT family was and is hereditary. You wouldn't think so seeing Jack's mop of hair here.

This photo of Jack holding me was taken in 1941. He loved Cricket and some 20 years later the two of us would play cricket at our caravan, sited at Long Line, Dore.

They moved house from Summerfield Street to No' 12 Pomona Street, two doors below where his dad lived. When his employer at the Bakery shop died, the owner, Mr Johnson had no close relations so he left the shop and the residential home to Jack.

  This is Wilf and Ivy Johnson who Jack used to work for.

My mother had been a widow for some time and eventually met and married Frank Toulson. They became close to Jack and Vera and often went on holiday with them. Jack and Frank are on the right of the first photo. In the right hand photo they are stood with Mr Hulley who lived opposite their back garden in Pomona Street.

In September 1980 they were on holiday together in Weston super Mare. Jack had a heart attack and collapsed in the street. There was no one at hand with resuscitation skills and he died.