SWANBROOKE DOWN A CENTURY OF CHANGE IN AN ENGLISH VILLAGE
Written by Rosamond Richardson
Illustrated by Peter Firmin
Published by Scribners
in 1990
ISBN: 0356190706
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SWANBROOKE DOWN A CENTURY OF CHANGE IN AN ENGLISH VILLAGE
Written by Rosamond Richardson.
Illustrated by Peter Firmin.
Stock no. 1810335
1st.
1990.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
An intriguing and poignant study of village life and the way it has changed through the twentieth century. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0356190706. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed.
Front cover
Contents
- Swanbrooke Down
- Swanbrooke Down and its Surroundings
- The Village in the Past
- The Village Street
- THE VOICE OF A VILLAGE
- THE WAY WE LIVED THEN
- Wilf and Dora Middleditch, Jobbing builder and wife
- - Darvel was all meadow
- Ada Brown, Horse-keeper's daughter
- - The gay simplicity of childhood
- Lilian Drayton, Farmer's wife
- - Scandal at the vicarage
- Millicent Lagden, Thatcher's daughter
- - The threat of the workhouse
- Grace Braybrooke, Schoolteacher
- - Lasting values in natural beauty
- Clarice Penington, Novelist
- - Looking back to old-fashioned ways
- Percy and Margery Colbrooke, Grocers
- - A contented retirement
- Edith Spooner and Mabel Hutchinson, Labourers' wives
- - Isolated in a community
- Joan Trigg, Widow
- - What will happen when we're gone?
- THE WAY WE LIVE NOW
- Sidney and Gwen Pilgrim, Gardener and wife
- - 'Them and us' on Hawthorn Hill
- Howard Gawthrop, Merchant banker
- - Commuters have revitalised Swanbrooke Down
- Sylvia Gawthrop, Banker's wife
- - A balanced and integrated community
- Derek Laurence, Publican
- - Stories to tell, but not telling them!
- Toby Wagstaff, Bartender
- - A Shepherd's Tale
- Pauline Walker, Postmistress
- - Bhend the post office counter
- Rex Vickery, Farmer
- - A movement afoot for change
- Matthew and Eileen Challis, Architect and wife
- - A planner's dream
- Timothy Goodwin, Agriculturalist
- - The last of a line
- Brenda and Patrick Walsh, Schoolteacher and wife
- - It's not a rustic corner any more
- Audrey Long, Wife and mother
- - The idyll is unfounded
- Maurice Mansfield, Vicar
- - Priesthood and the faith-life
- A YOUNGER GENERATION
- Advantages and disadvantages of village life
- The rural idyll
- Village gossip
- Community spirit and the social mix
- NOVEMBER IN SWANBROOKE DOWN; ENDPIECE