
- 144 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This powerful and beautifully-written account is the memoir of Patricia Nolan who lived in a tiny community in Cumbria and it captures the end of an era in the 1950s.'When the first organ-transplant was taking place, when computers were starting to revolutionise our lives and television was arriving in the sitting-rooms of Britain, in my house we were still dipping buckets into a stream to make a cup of tea and going to bed by candlelight, ' she writes.The tale covers three years of the author's life, made particularly vivid by a traumatic event which opens the book, but which goes on to depict a poor but close rural community with its village school, its annual country show, its Christmas celebrations and its local characters - all set against the dramatic back-drop of Scafell and the surrounding hills and moors on which she and her friends ran free.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1: Dark Days, Silver Threads
- 2: Guided by the Moon
- 3: Village School
- 4: Elderlies, Family and The Old Ways
- 5: A Grand Day
- 6: Moving On
- 7: Jack’s Bus
- 8: An Abundance of Holly
- 9: A Quarter of Bulls’ Eyes
- 10: Last Days
- Eskdale Recipes
- Acknowledgements
- Photo credits
- Also published by Merlin Unwin Books
- Copyright