| Description | 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. |