Dorothy Hawker discusses the pleasures of raising a young family in Frome and the walks, picnics and trips to the seaside they enjoyed

Margaret Wharlow looks back to the time when her children were young and she went to Mothers’ Union meetings once a month

Diana Ingram describes how her husband told her she had to give up her secretarial job at Butler and Tanner when they got married

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

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

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

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

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

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

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