Monday, 28 June 2010

FAMOUS CHILDHOODS 9


Iona Opie, childrens folklorist

We wore old clothes in the garden – ‘rumbling’ clothes we called them – and spent long hours out of sight of the adult world, climbing trees, baking mud pies, borrowing an old saucepan from the cook and making toffee on a bonfire.

Extract taken from Playground Memories, edited by Nick Gammage

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