reminiscences are from Winfred Spence, born in 1891 and are quoted in
The Days That We Have Seen , by George Ewart Evans.
"I came seventh in the family . Mother had eighteen girls and fourboys . but she brought up sixteen to live . My father worked on the farm at Flixton, near Lowestoft . Mother had seven dinners to pack up every day for school; seven! And she used to make eighteen two-pound loaves of bread at once, in the brick oven."
"We all had to work . I had to make the beds and tidy the bedrooms. Two . had to get all of the vegetables ready, before they went to school, for our meal at night. Mother used to cook for our tea. A great boiler she had on, for big suet puddings, gravy, and all those sort of things"
"The small ones had their tea earlier. They didn't have anything cooked; and they were washed and put to bed before father came home. After tea we all had jobs to do, sewing, and that sort of thing. The washing! Lines and lines of washing she used to have."
A patchwork quilt.
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