| Description | Only Yesterday
By Hilda Salusbury
DOB: Early 1900s
DOD: UNKNOWN
Grew up as the eldest of four children in a large old-fashioned house by the sea in a small seaside town.
Enjoyed freedom to explore countryside, beaches, cliffs, and bluebell woods.
Shared adventures with siblings, including climbing trees, paddling streams, catching tadpoles, and picking wildflowers.
Experienced occasional accidents (nearly drowned in a pond, fell into nettles).
Describes vivid seasonal memories - summer holidays, circuses, seaside life, and autumn herring fishing scenes.
Attended school, brought teachers flowers, sang school songs.
Played outdoors, climbing trees, catching tadpoles, beachcombing. Beach activities, building sand castles, sneaking into the circus.
Nearly drowned in a pond while chasing boys who stole her tadpole jar.
Fell into a bed of nettles after a tree-climbing game.
Participated in and won a sand modeling competition sponsored by a newspaper; prize ceremony at local theatre.
Describes the fishing season and the harsh life of women gutting fish on the docks, Observed seaside visitors, beach culture, and the circus.
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