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Book Synopsis The Boy From Treacle Bumstead by : Ken Sears
Download or read book The Boy From Treacle Bumstead written by Ken Sears and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliantly written memoir takes the reader on a journey into the past, to a rural England long gone, when horses worked the fields and small boys spent most of their time outdoors. Ken Sears was born in 1934 to a poor farming family in Hertfordshire - the fifth child of what would be eleven. He learns how to fend for himself at an early age. His boyhood life coincides with wartime, evacuees and American GIs arriving in his home town of Hemel Hempstead (the 'Treacle Bumpstead' of the title). At the age of nine he is caught stealing eggs and accused of killing a chicken (which he denies to this day) and is sent to reform school for five years. So begins a punishing existence, but it breeds a tough teenager, and after learning the trade of bricklaying he is called up to do his National Service in 1952. So begins his adventures in the Army, in Europe and Korea, where the ever-plucky Ken - who has an eye for the ladies and is always landing himself in trouble - finds not-always legal ways to make life that bit easier. After the Army he comes back to England and sets up a building business. From there he sees his home town change out of all recognition. The story is a characterful testament to the resourceful generation of the men who did National Service, fought wars, built towns and stood up to everything in their way. Ken's story reads like 'Commando Comics meets Fred Dibnah'.
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Download or read book National American Kennel Club Stud Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia by : Albert William Mann
Download or read book History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia written by Albert William Mann and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Troy's One Hundred Years, 1789-1889 by : Arthur James Weise
Download or read book Troy's One Hundred Years, 1789-1889 written by Arthur James Weise and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Whimsey Anthology by : Carolyn Wells
Download or read book A Whimsey Anthology written by Carolyn Wells and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Wesley's Journal by : John Wesley
Download or read book John Wesley's Journal written by John Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Halliwell's Film, Video & DVD Guide by :
Download or read book Halliwell's Film, Video & DVD Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Borstal Girl written by Eileen MacKenney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a fog-ridden south London slum in 1931, Eileen Killick quickly learned to look after herself. Her brothers were wayward, her mum had TB and her dad was working all hours on the railways. By the time she was fourteen she had survived the Blitz, a spell in a care home and her mother's death, but she craved excitement, embarking on shoplifting sprees, liberating fur coats and rolling toffs up west with notorious 'queen of thieves' Shirley Pitts. Eileen soon found herself in borstal, put to work building roads like a navvy. Known as 'Kill', she had a reputation as one of the hardest woman behind bars. Then, in the 1950s she met and married career criminal Harry 'Big H' MacKenney, and she was soon fraternising with the toughest, most colourful characters in the London underworld. She went on to have four children, whom she loved and protected, but life was extremely tough and Eileen fell back into her old ways, thieving and fighting to make ends meet. The 1970s brought police corruption and brutality to Eileen's doorstep. When Harry was banged up, Eileen carried on the 'family business' alone and found herself on the wrong side of the law - again. Yet throughout a catalogue of trouble this defiant London bad girl of the old school always kept her defiant sense of humour. Borstal Girlis a true story of shocking violence and survival that pulls no punches, but it is also a secret criminal history of a London long past. There is no other female memoir like it.
Book Synopsis Letting Blake Go by : Georgette Civil
Download or read book Letting Blake Go written by Georgette Civil and published by Apex Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destructive relationship between Blake Fielder-Civil and Amy Winehouse consistently made headlines around the world but no one knows the truth of what really happened between the couple better than Blake's mother, Georgette. In this powerful new book, she reveals the truth of the events leading up to the award-winning, soul singer's untimely death and the impact it had on her son and family. The drug and drink fuelled lifestyle of Amy and Blake was well documented by the world's media and it seemed that their volatile and precarious relationship could only ever end in tragedy. When the unthinkable happened and his ex-wife died from alcohol poisoning in July 2011 Blake was publically vilified and held accountable by the press, even though the couple had by then been living separate lives for some time. He has continued to battle his personal demons ever since. Letting Blake Go is a moving account of a mother's desperation as her son journeys towards self-destruction and she has to face the day when she must finally let him go for good.
Book Synopsis Lancashire Mill Town Traditions by : William Reginald Mitchell
Download or read book Lancashire Mill Town Traditions written by William Reginald Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Revolutionary War Records by : Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh
Download or read book Revolutionary War Records written by Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh and published by . This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in memory of Charles Hudson Edge, Laura James Edge, by Eugene Edge III.
Book Synopsis Her Ladyship's Girl by : Anwyn Moyle
Download or read book Her Ladyship's Girl written by Anwyn Moyle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anwyn Moyle was born at the end of the First World War in a small mining village in Wales. At the age of sixteen, she was sent to London to earn her living, where she found a live-in job as a scullery maid. Her day began at 5 a.m., cleaning grates and lighting fires, then she would scrub floors and polish the house - all for two shillings a week, one of which she had to send home to her mother. Things improved when she secured the position of lady's maid in a housein Belgravia, on five shillings a week. Anwyn was required to be a hairdresser, beautician, confidante and secretary. Reporting directly to the lady of the house, she was expected to cover up her mistress's affairs. Her time as a lady's maid was over when she was caught with a young aristocrat in her room and banished from the house, but Anwyn found further employment in a variety of houses, working above and below stairs. However, she found her niche in the jolly working-class atmosphere of the capital city's pubs. London between the wars and during the Blitz is richly evoked and, despite all her hardships, Anwyn never asks for the readers' sympathy. Her story is full of gregariousness and eccentricity, as well as being a poignant account of the history of a woman with an indomitable spirit and love of life.
Book Synopsis Alice Eats Wonderland by : August A. Imholtz
Download or read book Alice Eats Wonderland written by August A. Imholtz and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cookbook adventure based on Lewis Carroll's works Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass.
Book Synopsis The Last English Poachers by : Bob Tovey
Download or read book The Last English Poachers written by Bob Tovey and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In deepest Gloucestershire a secret way of life is clinging to a fragile existence. This is the world of the last English poachers - men who have lived off the land, taking game from the big country estates, risking the wrath of gamekeepers in order to feed their families and make a modest livelihood. Bob and Brian Tovey are poachers of the old stripe: a father and son of 75 and 50 years old respectively, who are continuing their ancestors' traditions, reluctant to surrender the old ways of sourcing food from nature. Writer John McDonald has obtained unique access to the men's lives and histories, and tells their fascinating story in their own words. The book is filled with anecdotes both moving and hilarious, as their sense of self-preservation, mistrust of outsiders and suspicions of modern technology express themselves in daily life. It is set against the backdrop of country sports as they used to be - and colourfully explains the shoots, the once-legal coursing meets, the centuries' old techniques of lamping, ferreting and netting and, of course, how the poachers outwit the keepers and police and escape with their quarry. It is a genuine, colourful and offbeat chronicle that documents rural life from a whole new perspective and a sense of humour.
Book Synopsis British Social Attitudes by : Alison Park
Download or read book British Social Attitudes written by Alison Park and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′...an authoritative survey of social attitudes′ - The Daily Telegraph ′The most comprehensive study of public opinion′ - Financial Times `The Rolls Royce of opinion surveys′ - The Times The British Social Attitudes survey series is carried out by Britain′s largest independent social research institute, the National Centre for Social Research. It provides an indispensable guide to current political and social issues in contemporary Britain. The most comprehensive review of changing British social values available, the British Social Attitudes survey report is an essential reading for anyone seeking a guide to the topical issues and debates of today or engaged in contemporary social and political research.
Book Synopsis Maypoles, Martyrs and Mayhem by : Quentin Cooper
Download or read book Maypoles, Martyrs and Mayhem written by Quentin Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers insight into the part played by superstition in British history - the omens and beliefs that have guided kings and shaped the course of battles. Fact, myth and slapstick have all played their part in the story of these islands, and popular versions of events sometimes differ from those found in the standard history books.
