A childhood memoir of life before polio, and immediately after, and my magical childhood adventures in and out of a wheelchair
CONTENTS
Frontispiece
Contents
Preface - HAROLD GOUGH. Writer & Honorary Curator of the Herne Bay Records Society
In the Beginning
Fire
Sea
The Car
My Sister Josie's Ear
The Bura Business Empire
Sex
The Fish and Chip Wagon and My Father
The Royal Hotel and The Drayman's Lorry
Uncle Jim
The Clock Tower
The Fletcher Brothers
Uncles
My Grandparents
My Grandfather and The Bomb
Jason
Girls and "Their Bits"
Fireworks
Johnny Oplett
Saint Bart's Hospital, Rochester
Cheyney Hospital
Mickey Spearie
Chailey Heritage
Characters
Anger
Janet Bailey
The Skate
Mother's Idiosyncratics Habits and Dads
Our Gang
Saturday Morning Pictures
Shards of Memory from the Restaurant
Mr Russell
Gypsy Lee
Show Business and Bob and John
Ice Cream and Comics
The Downs
Hampton Pier
My sister Josie
Shops and Banks
The streets of Herne Bay
Trains and Planes
Fishermen and The Tope
Herne Bay Memorial Park
Speed
Alone
Uncle Colin
The Flood of 1953
Kevin and the Giant Jellyfish and assorted Incidents
Sunday Dinner on the Beach
The Carnival
Freedom
Conclusion - Childhood Ends
