| Description | An autobiographical account of the childhood of the author's mother Cissie Victoria. She was born in Roos at a farm called Roos Furze, she describes going to the Primitive Methodist chapel, a sunday school trip to Withernsea, taking the temperance pledge at an evangelical meeting, an accident whilst riding on the back of a tip-reaper, her first job as a maid at Sproatley Rectory, the break out of the First World War, farm life, the life of her mother, a meeting of the hounds, her marriage in 1920, joining the Mothers' Union in 1925 and being its secretary. She died in November 1975. |