Suburban boy
Subtitle: growing up in south-east London in the 1930s
By: Adrian Bristow
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Reminiscence; Isis reminiscence series
Publisher: ISIS; Reminiscence Large Print; ISIS Large Print Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780753195383; 9780753195390
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Middle class; Biography; Large type books; Social conditions; History; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: "It was while we lived in Herbert Road that I acquired my toy box ... It was quite large enough for me to climb into and it became by turns a boat, a cave or a house, according to which story or character was exercising my imagination at the time."Suburban Boy is the charming story of a bygone era, of a boy who grew up in south-east London in the 1930s. Adrian Bristow came from that great unsung mass - the lower middle-class. He grew up in the years before the war, a time of rising standards of living, burgeoning home ownership and social mobility. It was a time when there was respect for authority and a strong consciousness of nation and empire.
Notes: Originally published: Stroud: History, 2008.