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The authoress like her father was born and lived for a good part of her life in Carshalton. She loved Carshalton and its famous ponds. At the beginning a small primeval dwelling-place, later the village – possession of a medieval lord, parish council unit and finally absorbed by neighbouring Sutton as a part of London. She writes about it extensively. Her book depicts life as it was through the last century. It is, however unique in that it provides one with kaleidoscopic view of the entire 20th century life in Greater London as she experienced, pp. 349