Linda McCullough Thew

Linda McCullough Thew (nee Summers, 13 April 1918 – 25 December 2013) was a British author. She wrote short stories and books and produced programs for television and radio. She is most noted for her memoir of life in the town of Ashington, The Pit Village and the Store, which was later dramatized for British television.

Biography McCullough Thew was born in Ashington.

In 1942, she joined the ATS where she worked on anti-aircraft radar. She transferred to the Army Education Corps and subsequently took a teachers' training course in Newcastle. McCullough Thew "pioneered sex education in schools" and produced programs for television and radio about human relationships in the mid-1960s. Labour History called The Pit Village and the Store an "affectionate memoir of life in Ashington."

Publications The Pit Village and the Store: Portrait of a Mining Past Pluto Press (31 October 1985) From Store to War Pluto Press (Nov 1987) A Tune for Bears to Dance to Bridge Studios (Oct 1992) Living My Life, Vol. 2 Emma Goldman (ed. Linda McCullough Thew), 1988,