Travel back in time to village life in rural Edwardian England; a time when children wore starched white pinafores and enjoyed such innocent pleasures as playing with the little windmills given to them by the rag‐and‐bone man.
In this evocative narrative of her mother’s idyllic childhood, growing up in Jasmine Cottage, Boroughbridge, Hazel Wheeler recreates the life of a country constable’s family through story, anecdote and song. She describes Hilda’s first day at school, the fortunes of her elder brother Willie, who became a footman in London, and that auspicious occasion when Hilda won a prize for the best essay on Citizenship on Empire Day in 1915. She recalls Hilda’s first day as a milliner’s apprentice and her subsequent move to become a wartime post girl.
Throughout these fascinating sketches of her mother and her family, Hazel also describes the close‐knit community in which they lived. This serves as a vital backdrop to the delightful tales which make this book so enthralling.
235 x 165 mm | paperback | 128 pages | 100 b&w photographs
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