Bits and pieces by Lois

War sent the clock whizzing back

To young people now the war is just history, their grandparents were born after the war, sometimes even their great-grandparents were…It truly was a different world, a very different world and here in Britain where food supplies were cut off, husbands, fathers, brothers and sons away fighting and serving abroad and at home, women out […]

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Writing by Lois

Post industrial…

How different this must have been a hundred and some years ago… this area along the banks of the River Brue was one of several sites where  clay was dug; at first it was the power of men’s muscles as they dug with spades down into the valuable clay but later machines took over. The […]

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