Along featherbed lane

the journey from bristol to the tiny hamlet of bromley near stanton drew took just over half an hour in the removal van. however, on their arrival, five year old christine and her family were plunged head first into a strange white world in which snow had 'pitched'. happiness was soon to be threatened by ill health and poverty. however, the family pulled through together, helped by the kindness of their new friends and neighbours. christine's account of a west country childhood in the 1960s and 1970s brims over with affectionate anecdotes of these people, set against the beautiful backdrop of village life in the chew valley.