Scents offer us a good way of reconnecting with our past experiences. Margaret Regan from Sidmouth Museum visited the Memory Cafe on Wednesday armed with aromatics from strongly scented herbs to boot polish to help cafegoers tune in to those memories.she also brought...
I was born at Passaford farm, which had been in my family since the 17th century. We lived there until I was 12, when we moved to Ottery. I was ill for 12 months because I was so unhappy. Father sold the farm when tractors came in because the land was so steep. He...
We all walked several miles to school. Mum came to start with, but then I just went with older children. I was very shy and hated school. My older brothers went to the village school, but I was sent to a private school. I walked five miles there and back, the bombs...
Frank Symington was living in Charlton, near Woolwich when war broke out. A dangerous yet exciting place for a young boy. Incendiary bombs fell in his street and Frank and his pal would collect sand and pour it over the devices to put them out! As his Father was ill...
My father was very strict, we had to do what we were told in that little cottage. In the evenings we sat by the coal fire and sang lovely little songs that he had learnt in Lincolnshire and other places, he would get his mouth organ out and play. We had to make our...
