Title: Suburban boy
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.
Subjects: Childhood and youth, Middle class, Biography, Large type books, Social conditions, History, Social life and customs, Manners and customs
Places: England, London, Woolwich (London, England), Great Britain, Woolwich
People: Adrian Bristow (1926-)
Time periods: 20th century, George V, 1910-1936, Edward VIII, 1936, George VI, 1936-1952, 1918-1945