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Skates and scooters were the first equipment most children operated independently, they were used on surfaces nobody had designed for them, and everything about them required adjustment. Here are…
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It was the only occasion in the year when a household deliberately went outside in the cold after dark and stayed there, which is why the memories are so…
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The seaside day was a single-day expedition requiring an early departure and producing a specific set of experiences that were the same for essentially everybody who went. Here are…
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The whole operation ran once a year with military efficiency, and it produced the only formal photograph most children had taken of them - which is why the results…
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A family car was a room the household occupied regularly, and like any room it filled up with objects nobody had decided to put there. Here are fifteen things…
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Sending cards was a project with a deadline, a budget, a list and an evening allocated to it - and receiving them changed what a room looked like for…