Author: Williams, Colonel H.W.
Title: Some Reminiscences (1838-1918)
Description: J.A.Bridger, 1918. Hardcover. 112p portrait frontis. With the compliments of the author to Porthminster House St Ives dated 1920 on fep. Williams was born in St Ives and records anecdotes of his life in which he worked on early railways in the South West, the London docks and returned to St Ives in the roll of Mayor. He offers much detail about his fathers capture and imprisonment as a POW in Napoleonic France, remembers fireworks at St Ives for Victoria's coronation, Pilchard fishing, Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, Waterloo station, submarine cables; he worked on the Railway at Reading, wreck of the Khyber at Lands End 1905, Sennen Cove lifeboat and etc. The book is clean and tight with some toning of the endpapers. See scans. . Very Good

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