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Ellen Kell - a few notes
Ellen Kell, a widow, had successfully supported herself and her family from the time her husband died, at a young age in 1908, by operating a small shop selling baked goods in Trimdon Colliery and a summer tea shop on Hart Sands. The Trimdon shop closed in 1936. The Hart tea shop also closed about 1936, when they were forced to move from beach area to the headland, which was a bad location, not profitable.
In 1936, the family moved from Trimdon to 11 South Road, Hartlepool, to live with daughter Jennie, a nurse at the Hartlepool hospital. Jennie married and moved to Nunthorpe.
Ellen moved across the street to 14 South Rd., a larger house, with sons Ozzy and Tommy. Here she kept boarding house until retirement age. She also had an arrangement with local bakers to make and decorate wedding cakes etc. (very artistic designs with delicate lace work and roses).
Related items :
Robinson (Kell - Smith) Family Album
