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…
Story Thread · 7 Stories
Growing Up at Number Ten
A route through the ordinary pleasures and shaping routines of childhood: moving house, walking to school, classrooms, games, meals and the books that filled family life.
Read in the order chosen by the family. Each Story leads to the next.
The sequence
July 2016
Twenty-Eight Moore Street
Alice describes the acquisition of the land in Box Hill South in 1946: Dad built the house over…
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…
December 2016
Primary School Teachers 1950s
MARGARETLike everyone else I started school in “Bubs”, aged five. The baby boom was in full swing and…
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…
September 2017
Meat and Three Vegs
Like many families, we were fairly poor as we were growing up. There were four children, only our…
September 2024
Books of Our Childhood
Books have always played a large part in our lives and I cannot remember a time when we…