Harold Walker "has written about those days, and his lively narative brings back to us the Wareside of that remote perioh. We travel with him first at the age of five from Walthamstow to Wareside by train and tram. In Wareside we share the discomforts of cottage life, attend the village school, sing in the church choir, spend a memorable evening in the signal box, visit the blacksmith at work, and walk down to Hertford to join in the children's partygiven by Noel Pemberton Billing MP in 1919. In the course of these adventures we meet a fascinating cast of named Wareside characters."