Книга: Mantles and Matches: A Hertfordshire Childhood

Mantles and matches, caterpillars and rag-and-bone men, the tin bath in the scullery, syrup of figs ...The memories come crowding back as Molly Eldrett recalls her childhood growing up in Hitchin in Hertfordshire in the 1930s and 1940s. Life then in many ways was hard. There were few luxuries for ordinary people. Discipline was strict, and the war, with its blackouts, air raids and rationing, overshadowed everything. Yet, like Molly, many of those who grew up in those times remember the fun and the laughter and the freedom Life was much simpler than it is now. They were content. 'It really was a very happy childhood.'