Between Charnwood and the Chevin : Growing Up in Derbyshire, Just After the Second World War: A Memoir
by
Brenda Ray
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1838591915
ISBN-13
9781838591915
Publisher
Troubador Publishing
Imprint
Matador
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 28th, 2019
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.60 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
MemoirsLocal interest, family history & nostalgia
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It's snapshot of the time between the austerity at the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Swinging Sixties, a bit of social history at a time of change, when the relative quality of the War years was being hastily shovelled back under the nice new fitted carpets.
Between Charnwood and the Chevin is a snapshot of the time between post-War austerity and the start of the Swinging Sixties, a time of change, when the relative equality of the War years was being hastily shovelled back under the nice new fitted carpets.
The developing suburb of Derby, where the author grew up, is described as ‘an uneasy cross between The Stepford Wives and Royston Vasey.’ Her family was ‘ordinary enough’ but could still boast a silent movie actress, a world famous philosopher, several strange family disappearances, a lot of railway folk and involvement in two civil wars. Ancestors had come from the flat lands of Lincolnshire, and others from the far south of Staffordshire, in search of work, settling in Derbyshire and Derby itself, where they stayed and flourished and which this books evokes with such affection.
The author’s account of her childhood and early teens is filled with warmth and humour as she occasionally looks back In Anger, but more often in laughter. It was the time of Angry Young Men and just slightly Stroppy Young Women.
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