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Gwen Venn talks about living in her small cottage in Willow Vale
 Gwen Venn talks about living in her small cottage in Willow Vale 461 534 Mercer Design
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Gwen Venn remembers how her kitchen window was six feet from the railway line and how she made tea for a passing train driver read more
Tony and Sylvia Austin remember their cottage near St John’s School
 Tony and Sylvia Austin remember their cottage near St John’s School 935 1024 Mercer Design
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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 read more
Cliff Ellis talks about growing up in the Keyford area of Frome
 Cliff Ellis talks about growing up in the Keyford area of Frome 789 768 Mercer Design
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Cliff Ellis looks back at his childhood living in Keyford and recalls many of the buildings and businesses around his home read more
Winifred Fairhurst recalls her happy childhood in Frome
 Winifred Fairhurst recalls her happy childhood in Frome 789 768 Mercer Design
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Winifred Fairhurst remembers her early life in York Street and talks about growing up in a family of four brothers and three sisters read more
Allan Fairhurst talks about growing up in the Selwood Road area of Frome
 Allan Fairhurst talks about growing up in the Selwood Road area of Frome 514 480 Mercer Design
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Allan Fairhurst lived in a two-up and two-down cottage with an outside toilet, shared outside water tap, and washday boiler read more
BS talks about his childhood growing up in the Trinity area of Frome
 BS talks about his childhood growing up in the Trinity area of Frome 750 727 Mercer Design
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BS discusses growing up in a house in the Trinity area of Frome, which some people used to call ‘Chinatown read more
Ron White talks about growing up in Waterloo in the centre of Frome
 Ron White talks about growing up in Waterloo in the centre of Frome 778 1024 Mercer Design
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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 read more
Trevor Weston describes his childhood in the Trinity area of Frome
 Trevor Weston describes his childhood in the Trinity area of Frome 250 329 Mercer Design
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Trevor Weston was raised in the ‘Ope’, off Selwood Road, and remembers the streets and shops and the games that children used to play read more
Daisy Bane remembers her Frome childhood, work and marriage
 Daisy Bane remembers her Frome childhood, work and marriage 704 768 Mercer Design
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Daisy Bane left school at 14 and went to work at Houstons, a job she enjoyed but which she gave up in 1939 when she got married read more
Diana Ingram remembers when married women had to give up their jobs
 Diana Ingram remembers when married women had to give up their jobs 861 1024 Mercer Design
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Diana Ingram describes how her husband told her she had to give up her secretarial job at Butler and Tanner when they got married read more