Under the Parish Lantern offers an interesting insight into rural life in Worcestershire. In the original foreword Bernard Miles claimed that Fred Archer ‘...doesn’t pretend to be a writer but just a farmer, putting things down in the plainest and most unadorned English, digging into his memory and hauling up great spadesful of practical matter about the village people of his youth...’
Here then is an interesting collection of characters from Fred Archer’s youth, from John Clopton the cobbler to Maud Handy the farmer’s wife who always held a stall at the village fête.
This charming collection of memories glows with a magical warmth which revives the England of the First World War and just after. Under the Parish Lantern takes the reader back in time to the days of home farming, horse ploughing and hand milking.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fred Archer was a prolific local author. He was born in Ashton-under-Hill in 1915. Fred was a farmer and an author who spent most of his life in the rural English county of Gloucestershire. He died in 1999 and fans of his books have constructed a dedicated website to Fred and his work. His books include The Distant Scene which is also published by Amberley.
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| Publication: |
July 2009 |
Extent: |
168 pages |
| Availability: |
In stock |
Images Mono: |
28 |
| Format: |
198 x 125 mm |
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0 |
| Binding: |
Paperback |
