CD copy of an oral history recording on a mini-disc of Mrs Evelyn Topsam. Mrs Topsam was born in Henley in 1923 and has lived in the area all her life. She talks particularly about life in the town for a young woman, and about the differences in the town today. Life was hard for the family as her father had been gassed in the Great War, he had poor health and found it difficult to work.Mrs Topsam worked in a bakery in Henley except for a month when she worked in the underground factory in Wargrave. She had learned how to cook by helping her mother who was cook in a private school which had many foreign pupils; many of these had to return to their countries when war broke out and the school closed. Her brothers served in different regiments in the War.One of her brothers was in the Territorial Army,one was in the Coldstream Guards and the other in the West Kent Regiment. They were all at Dunkirk, and they all survived; the one in the TA was one of the few from the Fourth Oxon Bucks Territorials to survive. Mrs Topsam talks about delivering breafd to the prisoner of war camp at Highmoor. It was well guarded so that the prisonrs had no contact with the delivery people. Mrs Topsam also describes how hard life was for some people in the first years after the war; the shortages and the bitter winters of 1946 and 1947.