Scenes from a Hampshire Childhood

the long version

SCENES FROM A HAMPSHIRE CHILDHOOD transports the reader back sixty years to life in an unspoiled countryside, to a time of cart-horses and hay-wagons. Milk is delivered by bicycle, flocks of geese graze freely on the green … and the privy is at the bottom of the garden! The author grew up on a small farm in Breamore and, from the age of 11, attended the boys’ grammar school in Salisbury. His collection of personal reminiscences is accompanied by a delightful selection of old photographs. Together, they portray a slice of social history in the mid-twentieth century. Rural life was so different then, dependent on the bus service and on local shops, with few of the amenities and technologies which we take for granted today. It is hoped that this book will interest younger generations, who find it difficult to imagine what life was like without television, computers and designer jeans. Undoubtedly, it will also appeal greatly to all those who, like the author, lived through the many changes of the 1940s and 1950s.