For eleven-year old James Joseph Johnson (or Jimmy for short) life is not always straightforward. In fact, things can be quite complicated, and don't always turn out as he'd planned ...Born in 1946, Jimmy lives with his Mum and Dad in a shiny red brick terraced house in South Yorkshire near the stee...
A unique collection of childhood memories from across the decades. Gervase Phinn has brought together a fascinating collection of people's first-hand accounts from the 1930's to the present day. Humour and imagination, and all the wit and insight , we associate with children and young poeple, here's...
Bobby Knutt was born into a working class family living in the northern industrial city of Sheffield. Music was his first attempt at stardom but comedy soon beckoned. By the early 1970s he was a regular on TV appearing on ‘The Comedians’ and working with names such as Tommy Cooper, Roy Castle and Bo...
The hilarious writing of Yorkshires last remaining aristocrat. The fictitious letters and illustrations in this book give hours of fun to the reader. Here is the description from the back of the book.
Brancaster Aloysius Montmorency Hugh Tarquin Parquinne-Ffynes, eleventh Earl de Gotnote, known t...
