Nita Lawes-Gilvear will take you back to those days and will make them live for you in her new book

With the Great Depression in the late 1920's men roamed the countryside searching for work on farms to make money to buy food for their large families. They were called Swaggies.

Children walked to school, sometimes seven to ten miles per day. When their shoes were worn out they wrapped their feet in flannelette strip from fathers' or older brothers' worn out shirts.

Infectious diseases killed many children as there was no immunisation for whooping cough and measles and many others. Today we take this for granted.

Nita's father used to say if you had a warm bed to sleep in, enough food to eat and a nice fire to sit by, what more could you ask for?

TASMANIA - THE GOOD OLD DAYS

ISBN 1 876261 29 3

Retail Price $14.95 AUD