Guy Oates (1905-1987): Fun and Festivities – Part One Had I have carried on to-day as I did then, I would be placed in the Local Authority as a child out …
Guy Oates (1905-1987): Fun and Festivities – Part Two ‘Having been in contact with children all my life, I have had ample opportunity to see the way they play the games …
Frederick Charles Wynne: Fun and Festivities (Part One) “Our entertainment recreations were confined mainly to the street in which we lived. We would chase madly up and down with our …
Charles Whiten Sanderson (1906-1990): Fun and Festivities (Part One). “All would gather round the organ on occasions and sing until the rafters rang” (31) Unlike other working-class men such as Cecil …
Frederick Charles Wynne : Fun and Festivities (Part Two) On bank holidays and on a few other occasions we had picnics on Portsdown Hill. There was a dusty road leading up …
Dora R. Hannan (1909-2001): Fun and Festivities “When we were on holiday from school or on Saturdays, we had various ways of amusing ourselves, other than playing in street.” …
May Jones: Fun and Festivities “Games somehow were seasonable and all the children of the village played the same games at the same time. In the spring …
Jean Court: Fun and Festivities Within Jean’s memoir, she is consistent in describing all the fun and festivities in which she and her family had and attended. …
Charles William Esam-Carter: Fun and Festivities ‘I remember nothing of Christmas, which seems to me very strange… Aunt Grace will have sent me a toy for Christmas.’ (46) …
Mary Hollinrake (b. 1912): Fun and Festivities For a young family orientated girl, it is no surprise to see that Christmas and New Year was mentioned with a high …
