A Time of Our Lives: How We Grew Up from the 1940's to 1960's

Name: A Time of Our Lives: How We Grew Up from the 1940's to 1960's
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By Gerald Rice

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I have often regretted that I did not ask my parents and grandparents what their lives were like when they were growing up and now much of what they knew and took for granted has been lost. This book is an attempt to preserve for my children and grandchildren, and anyone else who might be interested, something of what it was like to grow up between the 1940s and 1960s. This was a time when children played in the street without danger from the few cars around, when they listened to Children’s Hour at five o’clock on the radio and, unless they were among the very, very few who had television at home, could only crowd round the windows of radio shops to watch the flickering black and white pictures of Muffin the Mule and of the Coronation in 1953 on small screen television sets. It was a time when children enjoyed simple pleasures. If we wanted to meet friends, we went round to their houses to see if they were in. We couldn’t call on a mobile phone, or even an ordinary landline phone because very few people where we lived had such a thing in the house. We certainly weren’t connected electronically 24/7 (what a dispiriting expression). We couldn’t text or tweet, so all contacts with our friends were face to face. This book is not intended as an autobiography. Instead, I hope to show by episodes in my life and those of others what it was like to grow up in an aspirational and loving working class family, which would have been part of the experience of growing up during the years about which I am writing. The book is largely in chronological order but not rigidly so, as I remember aspects of growing up in connection with different topics covered, hence the “meandering lanes of memories” mentioned above. Full details and extracts available at www.atimeofourlives.com Price £9 + £3 postage & handling; €10 + €3 p &h; $15 + $7 p & h.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 237
Release Date:: 2014-10-01
Publication Date:: 2014-10-01
Publisher:: eprint limited
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 1910179124
Weight:: 322 g

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