Set in post war 1950's Britain, the exciting adventures of Davie Collins and the Sundance Gang and their rivalry with the boys from Brimly. This book can be enjoyed by anyone who grew up during this era for whom it is, in effect a trip down memory lane. Also for younger people today a chance to find out about a completely different way of life long before the days of the internet, online gaming and mobile phones.
Set in post war 1950's Britain, the exciting adventures of Davie Collins and the Sundance Gang and their rivalry with the boys from Brimly. This book ...
Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. The hardships and fear created by a world war were immense. Britain's towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, and many children faced the trauma of being parted from their parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For just over half of this decade the war continued, meaning food and clothing shortages became a way of life. But...
Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940...
Albert Littlejohn and his black market gang operate in the town of Southampton during World War Two. Dockers by day but gangsters by night, these men take full advantage of the darkness of the black-out conditions to burgle and steal whatever they need to ply their illicit trade.
Albert Littlejohn and his black market gang operate in the town of Southampton during World War Two. Dockers by day but gangsters by night, these men ...