1928 begins badly: the Thames floods and 14 are drowned; Stalin introduces the first five year plan in the USSR and begins to drive down wages; and Coca Cola arrives in Europe, via the Olympics in Amsterdam.
Still, the Women’s Right to Vote is extended in Britain and Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance.
My grandfather’s hands are shaking: the economic tides are turning and his trowel is dry.
Muriel Grace is three and Tom Mather is oblivious to his first birthday.
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