The way to handle “The Birds” came naturally to my father Jack Howe A story of Market Life My father, was introduced to working life in Wolverhampton markets by his boyhood friend Tommy Wright, who’s uncle, Albert Thomas owned a local fish merchant business. During the first World war every […]
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1945 – The Fair and Beatties
A Good Turn, A Parting Gift, and Back on the Bumpers. It was Christmas Eve, my pal Lennie and I, were spending this last afternoon before the big night, up the fair, on Brick kiln patch. We hadn’t any money for the rides, but just to be around the fairground, […]
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