[Minnie Frisby’s mother, Ann Jones, was a Nailer, herbalist, midwife and watercress farmer]

I remember following my mother downstairs that dark early Xmas morning, and she was cleaning the grate, which she always did before she lit the fire ; and all at once there was the sound of childrens voices outside singing the Carol, “As I sat on the Sunny Bank, on Christmas day in the morning”, it was some of my cousins who lived in the village, the Jones’.