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What were the 'fuzzballs' that people ate? How did they do their ironing? What was it like going to work in the fields or factories when barely into your teens? This book investigates some of the dark corners of domestic and working life but has plenty of room for fun - the arrival of rock and roll, the back seats of the cinema, and even the rise and fall of the 'X' film. Each chapter follows important themes of life, including, shopping and the arrival of the supermarkets, how houses have changed and what people did on their holidays... which was often not a lot!
If you love Lincolnshire, a unique county, you will love this book which may stir some of your own memories or may prompt the question: 'Was it really like that?'
ADRIAN GRAY was born in Grantham and has lived in Skegness, Dunholme and Ruskington. He holds a history degree from Cambridge and has written around thirty books, many on Lincolnshire where he is a regular speaker at history societies.
Contents
Introduction
1. At Home - Love but no Comfort
2. Did they really eat that? Food and Cooking
3. Spoiled for Choice? What we did for Entertainment
4. Pain and Isolation: How Healthcare Got Better
5. 'Did you get the cane?' The Best and Worst Times at School
6. Bombers and 'Balloons': the War as We saw it
7. Limited Horizons: Our Holiday was a Day Trip to Skeg
8. Poachers and Pilfering: Was there less Crime then?
9. From Horse to Highway: Life on the Road
10. From Travelling Shops to Supermarkets
11. Bonfires and Funerals - the Special Events that Shaped Our Lives
12. The Highs and Lows of Farm, Factory and Fishing Boat: Working Life
13. Pigs and Geese: Animals in Lincolnshire's Life
14. Lincolnshire Christmas
