Do you remember collecting birds' eggs and cigarette cards? Or the first appearances of wrapped sweets like Mars and Milky Way? The 1930s was a time of great pr

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The child of a small town in Midwest America tells of growing up in Rockbridge in the 1930s. Anecdotes recount childhood exploration, adventures, mishaps, and r

Paul Johnson recalls, with warmth and affection, his childhood in the Potteries - and a unique industrial landscape that has now gone for ever Paul Johnson, the