September 2024
Books of Our Childhood
Books have always played a large part in our lives and I cannot remember a time when we have not had a…
Childhood
Early-life memory and experience.
May 2024
Pins and Needles
SUE Although I have grown up with sewing and sewers in my life, it has never captured my interest, until recently. I…
June 2018
The Croydon Years
Our mother’s and aunt’s formative years were spent in Croydon. Alice was six and Marge nine when they moved. They remember the…
December 2017
I can hear sleigh bells
Christmas has always been special time in our lives. It is not surprising, I suppose, as the whole of society gears up…
September 2017
Meat and Three Vegs
Like many families, we were fairly poor as we were growing up. There were four children, only our father worked and "stuff"…
December 2016
Primary School Teachers 1950s
MARGARETLike everyone else I started school in “Bubs”, aged five. The baby boom was in full swing and there must have been…
October 2016
“Are you up to it?”
All the kids in the neighbourhood walked to school. It’s what kids have done for ever. We went to Bennettswood State School…
September 2016
Family camping
Our grandparents and parents had camped as young adults, so living in third world conditions in order to be able to enjoy…
September 2015
Lunchtimes at Primary School 1950s
Both Sue and Margaret remember school games as going in crazes or fads. It was suddenly, as if by magic, swap card…