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Extracts from a recorded interview October 2004 with Gladys Parson (nee Brackenbury) born Horncastle
 
'Those Childhood Days'
"I lived in Mill Lane for a short time but Rose Cottage Louth Road Horncastle was the home I best remember as a child and the cottage is still there. I was just 5 years old when the First World War began, food was in short supply for a lot of people, and we had very little money in the family purse."
 
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Nostalgic story. Holmleigh - 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye'
 

The memories of a young lady who worked in the Holmleigh Children's Home when conditions were dire and austere.

 
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