Gerald Quartley was born in Whitewell Road in Frome when it was still surrounded by farmland. He recalls his home there, which had no electricity or gas

Dorothy Russell talks about what life was like in her two-roomed cottage on Vicarage Street, with a shared toilet in the back yard

Gwen Venn remembers how her kitchen window was six feet from the railway line and how she made tea for a passing train driver

Tony and Sylvia Austin talk about life in Church Lane in their one-up and one-down cottage, without an indoor water supply or electricity

Cliff Ellis looks back at his childhood living in Keyford and recalls many of the buildings and businesses around his home

Winifred Fairhurst remembers her early life in York Street and talks about growing up in a family of four brothers and three sisters

Allan Fairhurst lived in a two-up and two-down cottage with an outside toilet, shared outside water tap, and washday boiler

BS discusses growing up in a house in the Trinity area of Frome, which some people used to call ‘Chinatown

Ron White discusses the mill owners’ and mill workers’ houses that used to be in Waterloo, and describes the interior of his own childhood home

Trevor Weston was raised in the ‘Ope’, off Selwood Road, and remembers the streets and shops and the games that children used to play