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The following are memories from around 1918 recalled by Ethel Stimson, as recorded by Hanover Housing Association in their book 'Tale of the Century' published in 1999.
 In my childhood there were no radios or TV. We amused ourselves reading and playing drafts or card games in the winter. In the summer we walked on the Common, watching the tennis players or around the town window shopping. Shops stayed open later than 5.30 pm and as late as 8.00 pm on Sundays.
Children played swings round lamp posts, throwing a rope over the arm at the top and then sitting on the rope and flying out and round, finishing with a thud on the lamp post, bruised but happy. We played with hoops in winter - wooden ones for girls and metal ones for boys. The roads were gritted so if you fell chasing your hoop it was quite painful.
We had two cinemas and a music hall. On a Saturday morning you could get in for 1d. And as they always arranged for Pearl White (the star) to be left dangling above a pit of snakes or some similar horrific situation this ensured your presence the following week to see if she survived.
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