◆ Voices
Every voice in the archive.
26 elders have answered so far. Tap any card to listen.
4 voices matching filter
"What do you remember about your grandmother's garden?"
1 voice
-
Edith Brown
EN
My grandmother's garden ran down to the sea. Roses, mint, and rhubarb. I can still smell the salt in the wind and the warm earth of the vegetable beds.
"Tell me something about your mother's hands. The smell, the shape, what they did."
1 voice
-
Margaret Thompson
EN
My mother's hands smelled of soap and flour. They were always busy — bread, washing, mending. When she tucked me in, her hands smelled of lavender water.
"What do you remember about Sunday morning in your house when you were small?"
1 voice
-
Margaret Thompson
EN
Sunday morning was the smell of bacon and the sound of church bells across the dales. My father read the paper, my mother hummed in the kitchen.
"Describe the bread your family ate. The smell, the shape, who baked it."
1 voice
-
Edith Brown
EN
The bread was a great round loaf, baked twice a week in the wood-fired oven. The smell filled the whole cottage — it's what I remember most from my childhood.