Walter John Eugene Elliott (1890- 1977): Fun and Festivities
‘What did it matter if there were a few blisters on the fingers and sparks in the eyes, it was all part …
Henrietta Burkin (born 1904): Fun and Festivities
Henrietta celebrates her family in her memoir and participates in every celebratory occasion she can. The Burkins’ pay particular attention to birthdays, …
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.” …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Ada Marion Jefferis (1884-1981): Habits, Culture and Recreation
Leisure and recreation is a key theme in ‘The Memories of Ada Marion Jefferis’, which you can read in full here, transcribed by myself. …
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 …
Norah Fearon Knight (1910-2000): Fun & Festivities
Following on from my previous post, where I discussed Norah Fearon Knight’s experience of leisure and recreation growing up in a large, …
Jack McQuoid (1910-1985): Fun & Festivities [Part 1]
‘If anyone like a fortune teller, had told me that someday I would walk onto the stage in that theatre, and for …