Verbena Daphne Brighton in Gissing Village, Norfolk
from Nuts in May: memories of care-free days, pages 30-31:
[Verbena Daphne Brighton describes what happened on Saturdays when she was a child, following chores and a bath]
Having been cleaned and tidied the next thing was a visit to the shop which was in the lower street and about a mile from our house […]
[…]
The door bell hung on a piece of steel and went ding-ding as we opened the door, and ding-ding as we shut it again. From out the sitting room came the shop keeper singing away, hobbling with painful arthritis but never a complaint.
Verbena Daphne Brighton, Nuts in May: memories of care-free days. In Brunel University Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies, number 2:104, p. 30-31. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1531748714216 accessed: 12 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersunspecified singing | performed by Shopkeeper |
Experience Information
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |