My mother may have unconsciously wanted to establish permanence in our childhood lives by keeping various physical objects and relics
What are valued items without the people and story behind them? My mother had preserved our iconic family keepsakes and their
Perhaps one tends to repress unpleasant memories and rather remember the good ones. As mentioned elsewhere here, my parents had
The Adults of York Avenue The houses at York Avenue couldn’t have looked more similar, but the people – we
Throughout my childhood, my family lived in typical lower and middle-class housing, both rented or bought. Our house in York
I have many childhood memories from living at 3 York Avenue in Culcheth, Lancashire during the post-war period. This is
For the time being, we have reached the last of the photos, artefacts, documents, and items of memorabilia. I now
I always got told stories about my birth origins: something more fantastical and something that my mother used as an