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Poetic
Journal of a Cameron Highlander
Poems written by a soldier during the 2nd World War
Jack Gillespie
Jack Gillespie was born in 1909 and celebrated his 100th
birthday on 4th August 2009. In his youth he enjoyed sports
and keenly participated in cricket, athletics and particularly
boxing. Belonging to a Scottish family in Liverpool, Jack,
not unexpectedly, joined the Liverpool Scottish Regiment
(10th Bn. King’s Regiment)...
* As featured in The
Daily Telegraph and The
Scotsman *
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Czech
and Mate
Margaret Austin and Fred Austin
He saw her for the first time in the queue for the Dean.
The year was 1947. She had just arrived in Leicester to
begin her English course at the University College (as
it then was), while he was making a fresh start after
the financial problems of the year before. He liked what
he saw and said to his new friends, “Have you seen
that zipped dress?” She saw him too and thought,
“You look as though you’re used to getting your
own way, but you’re not going to get me!”...
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Coronation
Village
North Muskham in the 1950s
Trevor Frecknall
Take a door-to-door stroll through a typical Middle England
village during the countryside’s golden decade –
and discover the harsh realities and tender thoughts,
not to mention the social and sports clubs, that made
communities so strong in the days when rural poverty was
taken for granted...
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is nottingham.co.uk *
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Poppies
in the Corn
Fay Garrison
When the Second World War broke out, Fay Garrison with
her mother and siblings moved out from her native Birmingham
to a peaceful country backwater in the little Hampshire
village of Redenham. Her idyllic existence was shattered
by the news of her father’s capture at Dunkirk. Later
in the war she returned to Birmingham to cope with a very
different school system with new friends and teachers
who shaped her future life...
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The
Grass was always Greener
Angela Claysmith Jenkins
In this candid account Angela Claysmith Jenkins takes
us through another twenty years in the saga of her extended
family. Through births and deaths, another nine house
moves and twenty five more jobs, The Grass was always
Greener describes the challenge of motherhood, Angela’s
involvement in the Women’s Movement and dropping
out in Cornwall...
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