Memories of Hook 1915-1920 by Marjorie Newman
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Marjory Newman incorporates her own poetry in a vivid account of life in Lydiard Tregoze during the period of World War I.
Her recollections include school life, fearful gossip about the end of the world, food deprivations (women eating snails), German prisoners working on local farms and after the war, Sunday School treats in Lydiard Park when the young Lord Bolingbroke rowed children on the lake.
- Years:
- 1984
- 1915-1920
- Type:
- Research Report Article
- Taken from:
- Report No. 12
- Owner:
- Friends of Lydiard Park
- Reference:
- Report 17 (1984), pp. 12-18
- Copyright:
- Friends of Lydiard Park
- Credit:
- Friends of Lydiard Park
- Last updated on:
- Tuesday 27th June 2023