This is the story of Eve Fletcher, born into a Liverpool household during the Great Depression of 1927. A heartwarming tale of a young woman who, despite the era she grows up in, considers that she has had an exceptionally fortunate life. She talks of gas lamps in the streets and outside toilets, but also a sense of camaraderie and an indomitable spirit for which the people of Liverpool were, and still are, famous.
Masthead Lookout is a journal of personal experiences, written by Geoff Shelton whilst he was serving in the Royal Navy. He journeys as far afield as the Arctic and Crete during his stint in the Navy between 1943 and 1947.
Geoff Shelton starts out on HMS Corinthian at first, and his experiences of Navy life in the positions in which he worked have been detailed here. A real insight into life on the seas is portrayed, and...
Masthead Lookout is a journal of personal experiences, written by Geoff Shelton whilst he was serving in the Royal Navy. He journeys as far afield as the Arctic and Crete during his stint in the Navy between 1943 and 1947.
Geoff Shelton starts out on HMS Corinthian at first, and his experiences of Navy life in the positions in which he worked have been detailed here. A real insight into life on the seas is portrayed, and...
These delightful stories chart the stuttering and at times quite hapless progress of 'the Spoz', (so named by his brother 'the Woog') from Norwich schooldays through his time as a student at a prestigious London medical school in the 1970s. From his initial interview at St Thomas' Hospital - an institution he chose because he had never heard of it and on that rather dubious basis thought he was more likely to be accepted - to his...
