Looking Back at Crawley - Hardcover

"Crawley Observer"

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1859837433 ISBN 13: 9781859837436

Publisher: Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

This work is based on the popular weekly nostalgia section of the "Crawley Observer". Two years in the making, this book includes over 350 pictures and memories from the early 20th century onwards, many supplied by the people of "Crawley" themselves. It offers review coverage in local press and radio; POS available. To sum up "Looking Back at Crawley" in one sentence is simple - it is a book about Crawley written by its people. Two years in the making, "Looking Back at Crawley" includes pictures and memories from the early 20th century onwards. While some of the photos were taken from the "Crawley Observer" archive, the majority were loaned to the paper from private albums by people who have watched Crawley grow from a village into a sprawling New Town. There are tales of war-time courage, school days and the excitement of a Royal visit, carnivals, sports and the people and places that make the town unique. You can read first-hand accounts of doodlebug strikes during the Second World War, school life in the 1920s, the bikers of the 1960s who were nowhere near as fearsome as they looked and the Land Girl who refused to give up her job even when the war ended. There is a 96-year-old whose mother took him to school when he was five and then never set foot in the building again; the couple who met hours after a German bomb killed dozens of people and the teacher who stood with a gaggle of excited schoolchildren waiting for the arrival of the People's Princess. With the face of Crawley changing day by day, many of the people and places mentioned in the book are long gone - making "Looking Back at Crawley" a must-see for anyone eager to look back and say 'I remember when...'

Edition details

• Publisher: Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1859837433
• ISBN 13: 9781859837436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192