Author: Wrigley, Frank
Title: The Boy at Willow End: Growing up in the Fens in 1940
Description: Larks Press, Dereham, Norfolk, 1999. First Edition, Softcover, Illustrated by: Frank Wrigley. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780948400803 Titles, contents list & foreword to front. Fishing, 'fowling and country-life in war-time Fenland. "If the reader takes a map of the Fens and draws a triangle through Wisbech, Downham Market and Ely, he will not find Willows End." This is Frank Wrigley's memoirs of the Fens of his childhood, presented as a narrative taking in the period June 6th 1940 to December 6th 1940, giving order to accounts of real events which would otherwise have lacked satisfactory organisation. Chapters include: Local Defence Volunteers; The weapons of war; The army arrives; 'Thanks for the memory'; The Captain's wife arrives; Blenheims at Bodney; The secret pool; Rattin'; Wings for victory dance; Daggy Flegg's shack; 'Aren't them stars bootiful'; Bombs fall on the village; The skating party; Goodby to the fen. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6 + 202 pages. No Dust Jacket as published. Black titles spine & front. illustrated by the author's b/w. drawings. Illustrator: Frank Wrigley. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Fenland; The Fens; East Anglia; England; 1940s; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN: 0948400803. ISBN/EAN: 9780948400803. Inventory No: 5190.

Keywords: BZDB227 Biography & Autobiography/Genealogy & Local History/Fenland/The Fens/East Anglia Biography & Autobiography; Fenland; The Fens; East Anglia; England; 1940s; Genealogy & Local History. Frank Wrigley Unbranded ISBN: 0948400803 EAN: 9780948400803 Fr


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