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| + | '''MABEL JANES REMEMBERS HER CHILDHOOD''' (she was born in 1887) in conversation with Joan West. | ||
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| + | '''MABEL’s HOME''' was at “Sunnybank” in Highwood Bottom at the bottom of Kiln Lane. All of Highwood Bottom on the north side had been enormous parish woodlands. During the 1800s it had been gradually felled, but in the 1890s people were still coming chucking (digging up roots) for firewood. | ||
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| + | '''POOR MONEY'''. “Poor money” of 2 shillings & 6 pence per week was paid out at the Post Office, in Lower Road, Loosley Row. She would see the people from Speen walking along the footpath across the Stocken Farm Fields on their way to Loosley Row to collect it. | ||
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| + | '''ANN & EMILY GINGER'''. She knew '''Ann Ginger who kept The Black Horse''' and her sister Emily. '''Emily was simple'''. She always curtsied to the big crab apple tree in the Horse Meadow at the farm because it reminded her of Mr. Brown, the farmer. They were spinsters and Ann left the pub to John Saunders, the father of William Saunders and grandfather of Ted and twins Mosh and Millicent | ||
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| + | '''STONE PICKING.''' To raise a bit of extra money her mother Caroline would go stone picking in the fields. These were used to mend the roads which were only earth tracks. People had to keep the roads which went past their land repaired. There was always a great demand for stones especially in lower lying places | ||
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| + | '''MEDICAL HELP.''' They could not afford doctors or dentists. If you got a toothache you just had to ‘lump it’. But there was always someone local who would act as midwife and someone to lay people out. | ||
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| + | '''NO TRANSPORT. ''' Mabel and her brothers and sisters walked to Lacey Green School, as did all children, some from much further distances. They had no other transport.{{Person | ||
|Forename=Mabel Rose | |Forename=Mabel Rose | ||
|Surname=Janes | |Surname=Janes | ||
Revision as of 05:04, 25 May 2021
1899. Social Snapshot. MABEL JANES CHILDHOOD
MABEL JANES REMEMBERS HER CHILDHOOD (she was born in 1887) in conversation with Joan West.
MABEL’s HOME was at “Sunnybank” in Highwood Bottom at the bottom of Kiln Lane. All of Highwood Bottom on the north side had been enormous parish woodlands. During the 1800s it had been gradually felled, but in the 1890s people were still coming chucking (digging up roots) for firewood.
POOR MONEY. “Poor money” of 2 shillings & 6 pence per week was paid out at the Post Office, in Lower Road, Loosley Row. She would see the people from Speen walking along the footpath across the Stocken Farm Fields on their way to Loosley Row to collect it.
ANN & EMILY GINGER. She knew Ann Ginger who kept The Black Horse and her sister Emily. Emily was simple. She always curtsied to the big crab apple tree in the Horse Meadow at the farm because it reminded her of Mr. Brown, the farmer. They were spinsters and Ann left the pub to John Saunders, the father of William Saunders and grandfather of Ted and twins Mosh and Millicent
STONE PICKING. To raise a bit of extra money her mother Caroline would go stone picking in the fields. These were used to mend the roads which were only earth tracks. People had to keep the roads which went past their land repaired. There was always a great demand for stones especially in lower lying places
MEDICAL HELP. They could not afford doctors or dentists. If you got a toothache you just had to ‘lump it’. But there was always someone local who would act as midwife and someone to lay people out.
NO TRANSPORT. Mabel and her brothers and sisters walked to Lacey Green School, as did all children, some from much further distances. They had no other transport.