Memories. We all have them, some good and not so good. This book is about many good memories of growing up in a wonderful seaside town. A town with its contrasting seasons where sometimes the Sands would be standing room only and then to a lost soul on a deserted sands. This is Weymouth in the austerity years from the late 'forties to the 'never had it so good' mid-'fifties. This was a period about the writer who as a small boy arrived in this delightful town a month after war had ended with his parents who were making a fresh start by opening a visitors' guest house located along the old, but picturesque harbour - a harbour that attracted this small boy so much that he was to fall in the cool running waters at the age of six and 'drown' under the paddles of a pleasure steamer, yet saved by a stranger in town when the boy should have expired. Now grown up, the boy searches for this mystery saviour nearly sixty years after the event.
During his search he reflects on the life with his brother and family and of the many places, friends and foes they both encountered, including a vast playground of houses bombed in the war, as they both grew up in this battered old house that was skilfully renovated by his father. Memories are of the visitors that stayed sharing a one-toilet-cum-one-basin washroom; the neighbours, one of which had a full-size grizzly bear standing on his door step; a visit from a shot-down POW Luftwaffe officer and about an uncle who was a CO and on the run from the police. This is a book describing a time when all food was rationed and where many items were in very short supply, but were happy formative years.
- ISBN10 0956377009
- ISBN13 9780956377005
- Publish Date 4 February 2010
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 8 February 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bowbank Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 312
- Language English