Covering an 18-year period in which horses and carts are displaced by motor vehicles, black-and-white television joins the wireless as home entertainment and children are relabelled teenagers, this memoir evokes a time of significant social change. An account of a northern childhood, it delivers snapshots not only of one family and one town, but also of a wider, vanished way of life. Memories of home, school and leisure activities crowd the pages as Joan, a lower-middle class girl, travels from infancy through junior and grammar schools to a place at university. In passing she visits places as far apart as Cornwall, the Lake District and Switzerland. The main location is Blackburn, still a thriving cotton town in 1940 when the account begins, but set on the western outskirts where cotton magnates once built their mansions rather than in the industrial centre. The family: father, mother, brother and sister, live in an old coachman’s cottage in the partly developed grounds of one of...

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