
- 128 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Fleeing the heavy bombing in Kent in 1940, Anthea Toft was eight years old when she arrived with her mother to live on a remote farm in deepest Shropshire. The contrast between her sheltered middle class life in the Home Counties, and that of the hard-working rural existence of the farming folk with whom she found herself, is vividly recorded in this remarkable account. A sensitive and nervous child, Anthea recalls with astonishing clarity the events that changed her young life at that time. A fascinating snap-shot of the farming communities and a lost way of rural life in Shropshire during the second world war. Anthea's account as a child-evacuee is interspersed with photographs and highlights from letters written between her parents at the time.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Farm Life
- Chapter Two: The Time Before
- Chapter Three: Idyllic Summer Turns to Winter
- Chapter Four: Crisis
- Chapter Five: End of A Hill Farmer
- Chapter Six: Aunt Julia
- Chapter Seven: Shipston on Stour
- Chapter Eight: Reilth Farm
- Chapter Nine: Our Daily Bread
- Chapter Ten: Dancing in Hobnails
- Chapter Eleven: Market Day
- Chapter Twelve: Whinberry Picking
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Also published by Merlin Unwin Books
- Copyright