Green, John W
Growing up in Lee-on-the-Solent
In this delightful memoir, John W Green describes what it was like to grow up in a ‘village of two halves’, with the western end inhabited by well-to-do families, and the eastern end by the people who served them. It was commonly thought that the shopkeepers reserved the better-quality groceries and nicer cuts of meat for the west-enders and for the officers’ hoity-toity wives.
He vividly describes how he became a rebellious child, going bird-nesting, running wild in Court Barn, scrumping apples, collecting ammunition, scavenging on the Ranges, and ‘borrowing’ a boat to row on the Alver. As he grew up, his hang-outs changed and he met his friends ‘up the Tower’, at the Bluebird Café or in the amusement arcade. Despite his reputation for being a rebel, John followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the RAF before becoming a ‘Marconi man’ in the merchant navy, sailing to every corner of the world.
Avainsanat: Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, Gosport, HMS Daedalus, merchant navy, RAF, Marconi, World War II, home front, nostalgia
- Tekijä(t)
- Green, John W
- Julkaisija
- Andrews UK
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2014
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sivumäärä
- 189 sivua
- Kategoria
- Henkilöhistoria
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781909183636
- Painetun ISBN
- 9781909183629