A Boy's Own Dale: A 1950s Childhood in the Yorkshire Dales

by Terry Wilson

Book Overview

Growing up in rural Yorkshire in the 1940s and 50s, Terry Wilson spent his school days hunting down Just William books, cutting up apples to help with fractions and staring out the window dreaming up new schemes.

But it was on the Dales themselves that Terry came into his own. Whether he was 'out-fishing' the adults with his homemade rod, grouse-beating for the lady of the manor, helping to bring in the farmers' hay in exchange for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091940214
• ISBN13: 9780091940218
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"