Another thing that got us out of the house and out of my mother’s hair was the fact that we
As already noted here in these recollections, other principles are often in operation. In the story, ‘Crime and Punishment’, it
When I turned 11, when my brothers were 15, 16 and 18 years old, I had been tasked to carry
I talked about my experience of child labour in the hands of Higgins in a previous post, albeit in a
Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter – Mutterehrenkreuz In the post, “Child Labour in Post-War Britain”, I mentioned how I got to
As mentioned in the ‘Childhood Perils’ chapter, towards the end of the nineteenth century, my Great Uncle Hugh sacrificed his
Horse Chestnuts Given the prominent place of conkers in my boyhood, I’d like to briefly explain the history of conkers,
No governmental or police interventions could hope to eradicate the culture of ‘conkers’ – at least in the 1950s. As