Books By Other Authors
£7.00
These Were My Days
Beryl Jukes (nee Vivian)
When your father is a teacher and a Headmaster during the tumultuous days of the late 1930s and 1940s life was always going to be interesting. From a forced eviction from their home to make way for RAF Portreath to life in the schoolhouse at Gorran Beryl Jukes (nee Vivian) recalls the dramatic story of her childhood in a fascinating tale told with humour and gratitude for the foundation in life she received. Learn of wartime restrictions, evacuees, air raids, entertainments, school days and much more from 94 year old Beryl in a book illustrated with her photographs from the time.
Illustrated. Paperback. 88 pages.
In Those Times
Jennifer Hocking (nee Lyte)
Poems about the poverty and harsh way of life for fishermen, clay workers and miners alike in 19th century – early 20th century Cornwall and the resilience and determination of the Cornish people to prevail. Jennifer Hocking provides 24 moving poems that evoke a bygone day but enrich our understanding of the hardships that made our grandparents and forebears the people they were. Jennifer is a well-known local artist and performer and has illustrated her book with some of her own artwork and a range of historical photographs.
Illustrated. Paperback. 48 pages.
£5.00
Magic Moments by Frank Pinto
Growing Up In 1950s Gorran Haven
Frank Pinto was born in Gorran Haven in 1945 at a time when the inland boundary of the village, except for a few properties, was The Triangle. He looks back at his childhood in the locality and tells a fascinating story of what life was like in the 1950s and provides an intriguing record of what the village was like then. He unlocks, for both local and visitor, the world of life in a rural coastal village in a time most of us only associate with Cliff, Elvis and rock’n’roll. Frank introduces us to rabbiting, fishing, farming, the village’s little shops and lost pathways, the washed up whale, as well as some of the village’s characters and those Cornish phrases you don’t hear quite so often these days.