Growing up in Wartime Southampton by James Marsh is a fine telling of the author’s childhood in a Southampton street, from his birth in 1939 until the demolition of the street in 1968. The author lived barely a mile from where, 10 years later, I spent my own childhood, and many of the locations and descriptions triggered fond memories. The book is highly recommended and particularly so if the time and area are similarly relevant.
[There are several references to the prefabs at St Denys in which I was brought up, though the absence of an index means you have to read the book to find them!]
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