Mrs Shepherd lives here. She is over 90 and has lived in the area all her life. Housebound now, she spends much of her time looking back. She can remember when Bethlehem Street used to be called 'Bethlehem Lane'. There were fields and farms, hedges and trees. In the 1930s the first suburban houses appeared and then, after the Second World War, came the flood of red brick which snuffed out the last patches of green. Looking back, she thinks of her childhood as heavenly days in an Eden which, now, she alone can recall. Why does the Advent Calendar start like this? Click here to find out…