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A large posthumous thank you is due to Kate Jones without whom this book would not even have got started. I am immensely grateful to my agent Clare Alexander for her faith in the book and for her unfailing wisdom and calm counsel; to everyone at Atlantic Books for the care they have taken in producing and publishing this memoir, most especially Karen Duffy for commissioning the book and Sarah Norman who has shepherded it with patience and enthusiasm. Thanks too to Victoria Millar for her attentive copy edit, to Elizabeth Minogue for her drawing of Wheeldon Mill, and to Lindsay Nash for going the extra mile with the ‘text boxes'. Enormous thanks are due to Kate Kellaway for her invaluable comments on the manuscript; my thanks also to Melanie Silgardo for her sensitive reading and to Gordon Willis for his keen editorial eye.

An Authors' Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors helped me financially and was a very welcome boost in the early stages. A Carlyle Membership from the London Library was also much appreciated and assisted my researches throughout. I am also grateful to Sue Peach and her colleagues in the Local Studies Department of Chesterfield Library; to the Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock; the National Fairground Archive, Sheffield University; and the Women's Library, London Metropolitan
University. Thanks also to Hilary Youde of Chesterfield Borough Council for supplying the deeds of my great-grandfather's wood.

Various individuals have helped with information and advice of one kind or another. My thanks to John Auton, Nick Barrett, Dr Lynette Challands; Margaret Hewetson-Brown; Victoria Rea; Philip Riden of the Chesterfield Victoria County History Group, and Stephen Wakelam.

The final, but largest thank you of all goes to my mum without whom this book could not have been written. Annie and Willie, and Betsy, Dick and Eva passed their generous spirit on to her.

Lines from Elizabeth Bowen's short story ‘The Tommy Crans' are reproduced with permission of the Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London on behalf of the Estate of Elizabeth Bowen. Copyright © Elizabeth Bowen 1934.

Thanks are due for the following illustrations: to Derbyshire Libraries for supplying the Spoof Race Card, Chesterfield Races, November 1863, and the images from ‘Chesterfield at Swallows: a shopping carnival souvenir of Autumn goods' issued by J. K. Swallow & Sons, September 1923; to Robert Opie of the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising for permission to reproduce the advertisement for ‘Dolly Blue, Dolly Tints, Dolly Fast Dyes'; the photograph of the Chesterfield Industrial School is courtesy of the
Derby Telegraph
via
www.picturethepast.org.uk
; the list of Christmas presents received by the Chesterfield Children's Homes, 29 December 1903, D522/C/W/5/1, is reproduced with permission of Derbyshire County Council, Derbyshire Record Office; the advertisement for Sunlight Soap, 1916, is reproduced with kind permission of Unilever; the line drawing of Tower Cressy, Aubrey
Road, by Frank Emanuel, is reproduced with permission of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Family & Children's Services; the classified advertisements for domestic servants, 7 July 1927, are reproduced with permission of
The Lady
. ‘Come out of the kitchen!', advertisement for the Parkinson New Suburbia Gas Cooker, is from Brian Braithwaite and Noëlle Walsh,
Things My Mother Should Have Told Me: The Best of Good Housekeeping 1922–1940
, Ebury Press, an imprint of the Random Century Group, 1991, p.88; ‘Shoot Straight, Lady', Ministry of Food Advice, is from Raynes Minns,
Bombers & Mash: The Domestic Front 1939–45
, Virago 1980, p.115. Copyright unknown for ‘When You're in the Money…' and ‘Oh Flo, …'