Yorkshire Post Article
Then a 46-year-old spinster, she toiled alone in her family home, Low Birk Hatt Farm, (54°33′40″N 2°06′00″W / 54.561°N 2.1°W / 54.561; -2.1) a dilapidated 80-acre (320,000 m2) farm that she had run by herself since the age of 35 following the deaths of her parents and uncle. With no electricity or running water and struggling to survive on £240-280 a year (at a time when the average annual income in the UK was £2,262), life was a constant battle against poverty and hardship, especially in the harsh Pennine winters, when she had to work outside tending her few cattle in ragged clothes in temperatures well below freezing.
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