This month’s Book Club with Sylvia Kent and a welcome back to guest writer Jim Reeve to talk about his new book CHELSMFORD IN 50 BUILDINGS.
Its a busy month for books with the Essex Book Festival Essex Book Festival | Reaching the parts other festivals do not reach
Jim has written several books including local history and of his time spent in Cornwall during the Second World War. All books are available on Amazon or Waterstones.
INTERVIEW JIM REEVE
- Chelmsford in 50 Buildings
- Chelmsford Through Time
- Basildon Now and Then
- A Schoolboy’s War in Cornwall
A Schoolboy’s War in Cornwall
Although only children at the time, Britain’s schoolboys have the memory of living through the Second World War indelibly inscribed on their minds, and now, in their seventies and eighties, they open this treasured box of remembrance for the first time. Living through the Second World War was a unique and difficult experience, but for the nation’s schoolboys it was often seen as an exciting adventure. Watching a country preparing for war and then being immersed in total conflict brought encounters and events that some will never forget. In this charming book, Jim Reeve recalls some of his vivid memories of life during the war in Cornwall where he was evacuated and lived with his mother and brother with twenty or thirty other families in the Atlantic Hotel, Newquay. With the same fascination that grips many men of his generation, he recalls some of the extraordinary events he witnessed as a young schoolboy, from witnessing dogfights over the sea and the rescue of airmen to watching Plymouth light up the night’s sky in the distance.
WE CATCH UP WITH SYLVIA KENT
SYLVIA’S 60 SECONDS OF HISTORY – SHENFIELD COMMON
ABOUT SYLVIA
As SWWJ’s archivist. I am immersed in new historical research, contributing to on-line press, see my downloadable Kindle books. Also Facebook,Twitter & Amazon @sylviaakent & film/audio clips added. BARKING & DAGENHAM FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS and BRENTWOOD IN 50 BUILDINGS. I won SWWJ scholarship and became a Fellow of the SWWJ and won the John Walter Silver Salver two years running. I now have the honour of being president of Brentwood Writers Circle, broadcasting on PhoenixFM, BBC Essex & other radio stations. Page views 421,000.
SYLVIA KENT’S READING & WRITING FORUM
