Selection of documents relating to Maud Hummerston's time working for 2LS (the Leeds-Bradford BBC radio station).
This collection of ephemera, including a home-made scrapbook, photographs, newspaper cuttings, receipts and personal memorabilia tells the story of Maud Hummerston’s time as ‘Auntie Nora,’ a children’s storyteller on BBC radio during the 1920s.
Maud performed on Children’s Hour shows, as well as Women’s Topics (Famous Gardens, Famous Houses and Fashions). She spoke in her native Yorkshire accent for Children’s Hour, which led to complaints from parents that they “did not pay wireless licenses to have their children listen to the Yorkshire dialect."
Diary of Maud Hummerston 'I remember, being some recollections of 2LS Leeds and Bradford Wireless Station from 1924 - 1928 by "Auntie Nora" ie. Miss M M Hummerston'.
A photograph of Maud Hummerston reading to a child in Leeds Library, 1947.
Reverse of photograph reads:
'M M Hummerston in Central Lending Library, Leeds on the occasion of her retirement (aged 65) on November 8, 1947, after 37 years in Leeds Public Library service. Appointed 'story-teller' in 1914 and Children's Librarian in 1927'.
Postcard of BBC Leeds staff, 1926.
