Dolly Koziol was a Communist born in 1924 in Greenheys, Manchester. After moving to Partington, Greater Manchester, she was a member of the tenants association and helped to set up the local people’s rights office.  Along with her husband Frank, she took part in the Lifetimes project, in which she got to document some of her life story. She is one of the parents of John Koziol, an early Commonword writer.