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Pauline Czypak - Family and Mapperley Information and photo’s by Brian Howitt and Pauline Czypak Aug 2010

No.34 and 35 The Village, Mapperley (formerly the police house/shop) c.2008

Sam and Rose had 2 children,
Samuel Oswald (Ossie) Howitt (1907-1969), Sam's son, worked as a clerk at Mapperley Colliery in the offices. He married firstly Gladys Orrill in 1931, but they later divorced, and he married secondly Eliza (Lila) Sills in 1947. Lila his wife ran the shop after Rose died in 1949, whilst Ossie continued to work at the colliery. After Lila died he took early retirement to run the shop. He suffered with diabetes and was to lose both of his legs with gangrene, and this confined him to a wheelchair. However, he continued to serve in the shop occasionally helped by his sister Phoebe, and in later years from his bed, until he died in 1969. Ossie was a 'feather and fur man' who gained a reputation locally for showing 'Banties' and rabbits.

Phoebe Evangeline Howitt (1900-1979) Sam's daughter, was working at Shipley Hall for the Miller-Mundy family when she met her young man who also worked on the estate as an ostler. She married George Bedford (1896-1979) in 1923. They were to live at No.35, The Village after their marriage. Phoebe was a very sociable person, and although she did not go out very much she loved entertaining, especially when the many Birkin relatives who had married and had left the village came to call. She would often do the cooking and home- baking for Chapel Anniversaries and Temperance Teas, most of the food being produced locally and donated by the locals in the village. She was a 'workaholic' and was forever cleaning about the house.

Phoebe Howitt c.1905

George Bedford 1896-1979
George came from a remote cottage on the 'Out Track', in Craven Arms, Shropshire, and was baptised at Hopesay church nearby. He began working with horses in Shropshire as a youth, and was given many tips on how to handle them by travelling gypsies. He later moved to work at Fradley near Lichfield, and then became an ostler at Shipley Hall. After his marriage to Phoebe Howitt, he became an ostler at Mapperley pit until early retirement due to emphysema. He was a keen gardener and craftsman and could lay hedges, thatch roofs and was also adept at many other rural trades.

George Bedford with plough c.1920

George Bedford 1896-1979
He was a very ardent Socialist and was often visited by the local M.P. for Belper, who at that time was Mr George Brown (Later deputy prime minister to Harold Wilson) He became a regular visitor for tea, to George and Phoebe at their home at No.35. At Carnival time in the 1960's George and his friend Bill Hooper dressed up as 'Steptoe & Son' and gave rides in a horse and cart from the 'rec' to the 'Candlesticks' for 3d a go. At the same event Norah, their daughter dressed up as 'Molly Malone' and sold cockles and mussels from her barrow

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