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The Langley Boy

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Author : Charles Tyrie
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2006-12-12

The Langley Boy written by Charles Tyrie and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-12 with Fiction categories.

Surviving the might of the Luftwaffes attacks on Hawkers aerodrome and the doodlebug flying bombs, the Langley Boy is an eyewitness account of a working class boy, growing up in the rural village of Langley, Buckinghamshire, during the period of wartime austerity and rationing until the more prosperous Rock n Roll years. It is a boys own story of gang warfare, trolley racing and escapades in an adventure playground of a rubbish dump, a surplus army vehicle compound, the Grand Union canal, a gravel pit, cherry orchards and open meadowland. On a more sombre note, it deals with the tug-of-war relationship with his parents, their jealousies, harshness, love and affection. It provides a perspective on the strict teaching regimes at Langley primary and junior schools and the overpowering influence of the dreaded 11+ examination. It describes family weddings with aunts dressed in flamboyant hats, and annual family holidays on the beach at Jaywick Sands and Llandudno. It recalls the memorable Saturday morning trips to the Granada cinema to see Roy Rogers, Laurel and Hardy and the delights of boys comics, and it relives the thrills and spills at Pelhams fair and Langley fete, festive bonfire night celebrations, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd and the advent of television. The painful voyage from boyhood to manhood takes place at Slough Grammar School for Boys, marked by the struggle to master the sciences with ultimate academic and sporting success in the sixth form. It covers the social impact of the Teddy boy era, the influence of the church, the advent of pop music with Bill Haley and Lonnie Donegan and life behind the bar at the North Star public house in Slough. In short, the book is about a boys determination to escape from his roots.

The Langley Boy To Be Better Than The Best

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Author : Charles Tyrie
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2015-12-21

The Langley Boy To Be Better Than The Best written by Charles Tyrie and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

This book, The Langley Boy To Be Better Than The Best! Part 3 of the Langley Boy Trilogy, is the story of the author’s ultimate success in fulfilling his long-held ambition to become a chief officer in local government, responsible for engineering, architecture, land management, and direct labour organisations. It details the David and Goliath struggle between local authorities and central government to prevent the privatisation of essential services such as refuse collection and cleansing and the maintenance of highways, sewers, vehicles, parks, and open spaces. It outlines the author’s leadership and management skills, his philosophy that failure is inconceivable, and his successful reorganisation of the councils’ workforces at Swansea and Rushcliffe to protect employees’ jobs, pensions, and conditions of service. The book contains family anecdotes of moving homes, creating new gardens, a wedding, the joys of grandchildren, the sadness of parents’ deaths, taking children to theme parks and pantomimes, and the fun of dressing up as hippies, punk rockers, and clowns at family parties. There is a fund of stories involving the author and his wife Hilary, hiring a narrow boat with friends to cruise the Cheshire Ring, buying a caravan to tour parts of the UK, travelling to Germany to sample its wines, and suffering from chateaux fatigue in the Loire Valley. It covers a trip to Spain to solve the first recorded incident of bearnapping, events in Langley, and creating T-shirts and specialty cakes for family special occasions. As a former member and president of the Rotary Club of West Bridgford, the author organised a series of charitable fashion shows, duck races, Christmas collections, and other events to help the less fortunate in the UK and overseas. In retirement, he became chairman of governors at West Bridgford Infant School, during which time the school was designated as outstanding by Ofsted.

The Langley Boy Raising The Red Flag

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Author : Charles Tyrie
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-03-09

The Langley Boy Raising The Red Flag written by Charles Tyrie and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Love, legerdemain, political and personal ambition, dedication, and all the ingredients of a Shakespearean drama are reflected in the second part of the Langley Boy Trilogy Raising the Red Flag. The story begins with a blossoming romance in Cookham, a students life at Birmingham University, being under the surgeons knife, marriage, fatherhood, and a coveted Civil Engineering degree. The book reveals the grim reality of living in London with a small child, Harold Wilsons Lets Go with Labour election campaign, a move to Timperley in Cheshire, a divorce, a child custody case, and becoming a chartered civil engineer. The contents provide a cameo history of the Labour Partys activities in Timperley Ward 2 and East Central Ward in the Borough of Altrincham during the period 1964 to 1974, the authors attempts to become a parliamentary candidate and his experiences as an Altrincham Borough Councillor. Cupids arrow at Timperley Hockey Club leads to marriage to Hilary, a new home, tackling Wainwrights Fells in the Lake District, family holidays in Anglesey and Burnham-on-Sea, boat building, school trips and entertaining nephews and nieces. The author includes intriguing anecdotes of his work at Stockport and Manchester, and describes the management of a direct labour force during a period of massive sewer collapses, the taming of recalcitrant developers and contractors, the resurfacing the citys highways, and the exploration the vast subterranean network of Victorian sewers, which lie below the citys streets. The story concludes with his success in becoming the Assistant City Engineer (Construction) for Swansea City Council.

The Boy S Own Annual

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906

The Boy S Own Annual written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Adventure stories, English categories.

Boys Books Boys Dreams And The Mystique Of Flight

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Author : Fred Erisman
language : en
Publisher: TCU Press
Release Date : 2006

Boys Books Boys Dreams And The Mystique Of Flight written by Fred Erisman and has been published by TCU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.

Setting the stage : technology and the series book -- Birdmen and boys, 1905-1915 -- Aces and combat : World War I and after, 1915-1935 -- Interlude : Charles A. Lindbergh and Atlantic flight, 1927-1929 -- The golden age, I : the Lindbergh progeny, 1927-1939 -- The golden age, II : the air-minded society, 1930-1939 -- World War II and modern aviation, 1939-1945 -- Aftermath : a-bombs, rockets, and space flight, 1945-1950.

Minutes Of The Controversy Betwixt Mr Langley Of Brampton And Mr James Cocker Of Barnsley The Whole Faithfully Compiled From The Several Newspapers In Which The Letters C Appeared A Controversy On The Merits Of The Brampton And Moorgate Schools

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Author : Larret LANGLEY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1830

Minutes Of The Controversy Betwixt Mr Langley Of Brampton And Mr James Cocker Of Barnsley The Whole Faithfully Compiled From The Several Newspapers In Which The Letters C Appeared A Controversy On The Merits Of The Brampton And Moorgate Schools written by Larret LANGLEY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1830 with categories.

Boys Get Anorexia Too

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Author : Jenny Langley
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2006-02-15

Boys Get Anorexia Too written by Jenny Langley and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-15 with Psychology categories.

An account of anorexia nervosa in a 12 year old boy and the effect on his family. Provides an account of his treatment and tips for parents on how to manage everyday situations.