"I remember lamb sale day, in the spring. The shepherds used to drive the lambs along the road. That's why it's called Lambsale Meadow..."
"...many people used to work on Saturday mornings, so the only time to get out was on Saturday afternoon. The pavements were packed."
"...he could hear a binder going and wondered if there was a rabbit to be had. He was a hell of a shot with a catapault..."
"I fell out of the window because I couldn't be bothered to go downstairs to the garden to have a pee..."
"... we'd always come to Sax for sale day. Sometimes, I'd have rabbits to sell, but you used to come just for the sake of it."
Through conversations with 40 residents of a provincial East Anglian town,
Sax Stories
tells the story of a town in East Suffolk that was, until the mid 20th century, a thriving rural market town, once important enough to host the Suffolk Show.
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tells life stories that would otherwise be unheard, the like of which will not be heard again.