Jack Kelly

Jack Kelly was born in 1922 in Hulme, Manchester to a bookmaker father and barworker mother. He worked as a travelling salesman. He moved to Partington, Greater Manchester in 1967 and took part in the Lifetimes project, in which he got to document some of his life story, along with his wife Elsie Kelly.

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