Tales From When I Were A Lad: More snapshots from a time that Health & Safety forgot
By (Author) Andrew Davies
HarperCollins Publishers
Portico
25th November 2013
5th September 2013
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Nostalgia: general
Age groups: children
305.23
Hardback
144
Width 200mm, Height 154mm, Spine 17mm
410g
Take a nostalgic trip back to a time when children played on the street, the local bobby could clip your ear and anywhere beyond Bridlington was an exotic holiday.
Awwww, the old days. A time when grime were fashionable, school sports a menace and exotic holidays were anywhere you couldnt cycle to.
Take a nostalgic trip back to a time before risk assessment and child welfare, when teachers could belt you over the backside with any hard object smaller than a kettle, and kids could buy fireworks and light casual bonfires.
Jam-packed with photos that could be never taken today. Children pose on walls, lean out of high-speed fairground rides and sit happily in the middle of road junctions.
Andrew Davies graduated from Wye College, the agricultural college of London University, in 1979 with a degree in Rural Environmental Studies. He was introduced to beekeeping by a pig-farming friend and has kept bees since 1991.