Album 14

Throughout 1937 + 1938 Gracie featured in these strip cartoons in the
Daily Mail. The first one above was published on 18th October 1937.

"God gave me the wonderful gift of providing laughter" So spoke Gracie when she opened the Squire's Gate Holiday Camp at Blackpool in June 1937. 5,000 Lancashire people mobbed her. They broke the police barricades to shake and kiss her hands and almost swept her away in their excitement.

When she was on the platform with the 'posh people' ready for the speech-making she saw six children from Rochdale. With "I'll be back" Gracie dashed over to them and for five minutes made funny faces and wore their hats. (Opposite)

"Where I were born" is Gracie's caption to the above photograph in her album. The event took place in the front bedroom over this fish and chip shop (Chip Sarah's) at 9 Molesworth Street, Rochdale. The gentleman on the right of picture is Mr. Charles Henry Bryning who's idea it was to shorten Gracie's surname from Stansfield to Fields.

Gracie with George Formby and Henry Hall
rehearse for a broadcast in December 1937.

The signed photograph is later used to produce the magazine cover (opposite) in 1938

Photograph still from the 1938 film 'Keep Smiling'

Gracie received the CBE from King George V1 on 15th February in 1938

Gracie outside Buckingham Palace