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Yes Bakewell is just outside Sheffield. I have spent many a happy hour there when I was growing up. I think Clitheroe is over the other side of the Pennines. Looking promising. I'm working on possible marriage and children from the three dob I've got for Harrison/ Owen. There are quite a few.

I am on both Ancestry and FindMyPast. The certificate hasn't arrived yet but I understand that Saturday mail deliveries have been halted except for parcels. So hopefully it will be Monday.
The only birth I can find for a Nicholas Harrison in 1919 with the father Frederick is in Clitheroe. It also shows the mother as Cook which could be significant after what Jool found out.
Sorry for being a bit thick but Rosie99 what do you mean about her using another name?
I am so grateful to you all for your help.

I think my thinking was to try to find out if Vera stayed in Bedford after the divorce or even how long she was actually there for. The family must have had some idea that she was living in London unless from the vantage point of Yorkshire Bedford seemed like almost London to them. The house where she was living in Bedford 166, Hurst Grove, Queens Park, looks to be rather a large house and might have been split into different rooms or flats back then. I know there were no electoral rolls during WW2 but I don't know when exactly they stopped or when the restarted. On the divorce petition it does say 'late' of that address so does that mean 'last known address'?

As she was a part of my dad's family I do know that her maiden name was Owen and that she was born in 1919 in Sheffield. She was married in 1939 to Nicholas Harrison and yes they were divorced in 1947. The family were under the impression that she may have died during the London bombings but I'm not convinced of that fact. I did find the newspaper announcing the divorce petition. If her husband thought that she was dead would he still petition for divorce or would he have her declared dead - after 7 years isn't it?
I did find a couple of later marriages for a Vera Harrison in Sheffield. One 1951 and another 1955 but this can only be conjecture. I did try to see if I could find electoral rolls for the Bedford address for the 1950s but I couldn't access them online. I also found three births in Sheffield in 1939, 1943 and 1947 but if she was living in Bedford these would seem to be wrong.

Yes they do have a tree but the name which brought them up is only one person on her tree from back in the 1700s so not sure if that will be our main connection. Seems unlikely. She and I have already been trying to locate where our connection can be for the last 18 months. I'm beginning to lose my impetus, I really am. I have more puzzles than you can shake a stick at. I've already managed to solve one but still have three more, including the current search. It is so difficult to keep going when you seem to hit so many dead ends. However, I'm not spent yet and shall keep going.

The thing is when you use the search box on the DNA results page it brings up everyone who has that surname in their tree but that can be a complete red herring. That's why I tried to do it the other way around and searched in Public Member Trees for the person you're investigating and then search the trees which have that person in them and look for someone who also has a DNA connection to me.

There may be other ways of searching and I am completely open to any help regarding this. At present it feels a bit like banging my head against a brick wall. Why don't more people take the DNA test? This could make my task so much easier.