Lowe, R: Social, Labour and Local History Life at the turn of the 20th century including community policing and wartime rationing. Sunday afternoon walks, where his family would stop ast the old farmhouse for a strawberry tea under the trees in the orchard. This stopped for him and his family due to the war. Annual flower show If a street was covered with six inches of straw it meant that somewhere opposite the straw cushion was a house containing a sick person who needed quietness to aid recovery. The straw would deaden the sound of horse traffic which was the order of the day. 1914 - The terriorial army was in camp. Constant flow of hospital trains bringing wouded from the front to all big towns, straining the hospitals to to their limit. Handwritten/Typed written: Type-written c. 1,800 words. n.d. [early 20th C]