In the ’20s, it had the effect of bringing families 
together in the sense that grandma could come 
from some 20 miles away for Sunday. But the 
railway train had slightly earlier broken up family life. 
It was possible from any village to go on a train and 
go to the big town, which they did. The railway train 
broke up family life. The motor car brought the 
family back together but it didn’t exactly unify the 
hours of the day. In terms of space, the family was