Review by Marie Brown

This is an easy read that will bring your imagination and memories to life, especially if you know any of the places Daisy talks about in her book of Brighton life in 1910-1934. I remember mangles, rickets blue and the change from gas lighting to electricity well. You may well assume that I am in my dotage, and to the young of today I probably appear so. These things however, I remember from the 1950's a long time after Daisy was experiencing them. It seems that progress did not move as fast as it does today! Steam trains were still operating in my early childhood; I remember the first electric trains at Portslade Station.

Daisy lived through Brighton life in the early twentieth century and in her later years took the trouble to record them for us to share with her. So much of this will be alien to this generation. I hope that people will read it and reflect on the easiness of their lives now in comparison to Daisy's and others of that time. The work ethic is so different now and thankfully there will never be as much hardship again.

A must read for anyone even remotely interested in the past.