| Description | DOB: Unknown
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Grew up in a rural English village, likely in the Cotswolds.
Vivid early memories of domestic life, religious attendance, family dynamics, and the village social structure.
Experienced a rich sensory and emotional childhood full of nature, animals, and storytelling.
Witnessed illness, death (including a schoolmate), and childhood tragedies such as the polio epidemic.
Attended a village school with limited resources but strong community engagement.
Developed a love for reading and literature, inspired by a gifted headmaster.
Missed out on formal secondary education due to economic constraints.
Worked on the family farm doing manual labour from a young age.
Took on various responsibilities including dairy work, sowing, feeding livestock, and keeping records.
Reading, sewing, writing, embroidery, and storytelling.
Loved exploring nature, walking her spaniel, and attending lectures or village events.
Enjoyed imagining or enacting theatrical performances with local children.
Peace day celebrations after WWI, Empire Day observances, and the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
Loss of several children in the community due to illness.
The appearance of the threshing machine and technological changes in farming life.
Emotional recollections of significant deaths and local superstitions.
Recollecting of the war’s impact on village life and the building of war memorials.
Handwritten, later typed or transcribed from handwritten notes or oral history contributions.
Rural England, early 20th century, childhood memory, polio epidemic, village school, farm life, family dynamics, wartime Britain, sensory detail, spaniel companion, religious upbringing, storytelling, working-class girlhood, community memory, grief and resilience. |