Spun Yarn and Bell Bottoms

F. P. Froëst-Carr

United Writers Publications Ltd

People often say 'Feet are Funny' and the author sets out to prove how right they are. Our overworked 'plates of meat' have led him into many quite hilarious situations and reading this book will not only do your feet some good, for it contains some useful advice, but it will also do your spirits good. The book traces the early career of the author from the training school to his first appointment as assistant to a chiropodist cum poultry farmer in the Rossendale Valley; then on to early days as an N.H.S. chiropodist. It is anecdotal in style and tells of the many colourful and amusing characters the author has met; and the adventures in which he has become involved. Chesterton said that any man who can't laugh at his feet has no sense of humour, the same can be said of anyone who does not have a hearty chuckle over the escapades of the chiropodist who was always putting his foot in it.

Your feet are killing me!

John D. Vose

Biographies & Memoirs

This is the story of a unique mode of existence; an account of a way of life once commonplace, when 'Gentlemen of the Road' roamed Britain in their thousands, almost as familiar a sight as motor cars are today. Joseph Stacey was a tramp of the old school, a professional, totally independent, self-sufficient, turning living off the land and the general public into a fine art. John Vose met him in the early 'sixties when Stacey thumbed a lift in the North of England; he was fascinated and intrigued by this amazing raconteur of the world of trampdom; he made notes, meeting Stacey on many occasions. Mr Vose tells Staceys' story in the first person, the way it was told to him, for greater impact. Diary is a vastly entertaining account of one tramps life and his strange, bizarre travelling companions. Often sad, nostalgically evocative of life between the two Great Wars often hilarious and, above all else, completely foreign to 'respectable' society in this day and age. Regimented to the modern 'rat race' as we are one can almost grow to envy him! To parody the popular song 'Stacey did it his way'. . . Why not join him on the open road?

Diary of a tramp

Escape and Evasion

Penna, Cyril

Presented as a diary, this book reflects Dorinda Jeynes's memories of being brought up on a hilly farm in Devon, with much of it being contrasted against the events of 1980. As well as her own story Dorinda passes on 'slices of history' handed down by her Grandparents. Because of the diary form, with some items very short, some quite long, it is a book which can be 'dipped into'; it shows so many of the changes which have taken place since the period when she went to a village school in the 1920s not only in major happenings but in many small ways. This is both a readable autobiography and a historical document of the way life used to be for people in the countryside, with photographs and drawings helping to authenticate the memories behind them.

Back Along, Up Bremridge

dorinda-jeynes

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Business & Money

Cattran, Roy.

Economics

A Cornish childhood, 1935-1947

Anne Burley

An evacuee

Leslie Scrase

Set in the south Wales village of Skewen and its surrounds in the turbulent third and fourth decades of the 19th century, this novel provides a fascinating glimpse of the social upheaval of those times.

A ha'porth of God help

Literature & Fiction

Bill Bailey

Genre Fiction

Having become displaced from home as an evacuee in 1942, the idea of boarding school is exciting to young Roger Wallace. The brutal reality of war hits him hard with the death of a brother which, in turn, becomes a milestone in his own coming of age.

A prized pupil!: Of a boys' boarding school in the 1940s

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