Hops, Doodlebugs and Floods
Subtitle: a Memoir of Growing Up In Essex
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780752480169
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Social conditions; Biography; HISTORY; REFERENCE; Bibliographies & Indexes
Description: This is the true tale of a boy born into a typical East End family in the Second World War, beginning with his early memories of hop picking and having little money, and moving on to his life in the 1950s and his experience of the devastating east coast floods of 1953. These early memories are the author's own, but what he remembers are a number of events and places that many others growing up in Essex will also recall. The author left school at fifteen and joined the merchant navy, illegally, where he witnessed emigrants travelling from Tilbury to Australia, in search of a new life for £10. A.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; One: Straw Sticking in my Bum; Two: Floods of Tears; Threee: Dead Man's Bay; Four: Australia Bound; Five: Indecent Exposure; Six: The Scum of the Earth; Seven: A Change of Direction; Eight: The Law of Averages; Nine: School Report; Ten: Dole to Doctorate; Eleven: Chance Happenings; Twelve: Be Kind to Books; Epilogue.