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….When Frank is in the office working up a case he is always very quiet, and becomes greatly absorbed in what he is doing. He often sits with his pocket-handkerchief in his hand, with one corner between his teeth, quite lost to all that is going on around….
Jean Day tells more of the lives of neighbours living in the town of Worcester in the early days of last century.
Jean Day, in continuing her story of the people who lived in a Worcester crescent a hundred years ago, brings, by way of a letter, a glimpse of life as it was then in South Africa.
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An unwelcomed seaside adventure features in Jean Day’s latest chapter in the account of the lives of neighbours in the English town of Worcester a century ago.
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...Tom took us to La Longue Rocque, Le Route de Paysans, which is an impressive menhir, measuring 4 feet – the tallest on Guernsey. Folklore says that the fairies used to use the stone as a cricket bat but it is also said to increase fertility if touched. Mary laughed at the story, but she also did quite a lot of touching of it...
Jean Day continues her account of a group of Worcester neighbours in the first decade of the 20th Century.
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...The boat sailed from Weymouth in Dorset and docked at St. Peter Port. There is a big castle just by the harbour called Castle Cornet, and pointing out to sea is a canon which booms out every day at midday, and it was going off just as we arrived...
The central character in Jean Day’s account of the lives of Worcester neighbours gives an account of a holiday in Guernsey in 1912.
…Last August was a very hot month, just the right weather for enjoying beach life at Shoreham, where the family had a bungalow. Frank made friends with some children in the neighbouring bungalows, and eventually could hardly shake them off; when he said good-bye to them at the back door, they immediately ran round the bungalow and appeared at the front, and followed him to the sea when he went to bathe…
Jean Day’s story concerns the lives of people living in the same crescent in a provincial English town a hundred years ago.
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Jean Day gives an idea of the imaginative family entertainments of a century ago.
To read earlier chapters of Jean’s account of neighbours living in Worcester at the beginning of the Twentieth Century please click on http://www.openwriting.com/archives/lansdowne_crescent/
…Frank is an actor of no small ability. His star part was that of 'Sir Jeremy' in the Duchess of Bayswater, in which he sustained from start to finish the voice and affectations of a snobbish old malade imaginaire, a part exactly opposed to his own character. A stranger who saw him rehearse without make-up, seated in a bath chair said his cheery, healthy face and invalidish manner made up one of the most incongruous sights she had ever seen. His merry ways endears him to children. A small girl after taking a walk, through the town volunteered the remark that she had seen no one she liked the look of so well as Mr. Frank Tree. Another day some children remarked as he passed, 'There goes Charlie Chaplin,' evidently associating him with mirth….
Jean Day brings to life the residents of a crescent in the city of Worcester a century ago.
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Jean Day continues her account of family life in the town of Worcester a hundred years ago.
…Talking of Charlie reminds me of a time when there was a play being performed by amateurs somewhere in the town so we lent a few articles of furniture which had to be conveyed to the hall, among other things a large armchair. In Sidbury I met the dray slowly proceeding towards the hall, and in the arm-chair was Charlie calmly reading, quite oblivious of his surroundings…
Jean Day brings to life’ the residents of a crescent in the city of Worcester a century ago. To read earlier chapters of the book please click on Landsdowne Crescent in the menu on this page.
Jean Day continues her story of the families who lived in a crescent in the city of Worcester in the early days of the Twentieth Century.
Jean Day continues her word-portrait of a Worcester street and the people who lived in it around a hundred years ago.
Jean Day’s novel concerns the lives of families living in a crescent in Worcester in the early days of last century.
This week there is a letter from Malaya from a young woman who once lived in Lansdowne Crescent.
Jean Day continues her story concerning the families who lived in the same crescent in the city of Worcester in the early days of last century.
Jean Day’s new novel, Lansdowne Crescent, recreates the lives of people living in an English city in the early days of the 20th Century.
Jean’s story, the result of intensive historical research, will be appearing in weekly episodes.
