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The Legend That Was Clapham: All Good Things....

The Legend That Was Clapham: All Good Things....


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This book describes the reason for the purpose-building of Clapham, an entire parish of hundreds of houses within Gloucester City in 1825, its imported population from the Midlands, the development of its admirable culture over successive generations, its triumph over poverty and social adversity, and details of its mutually supportive day-to-day life as observed in the Thirties and Forties, with emphasis upon its legion of astonishing characters. The tragic and foolish raising, in the Nineteen Fifties, of its hundreds of houses, shops, pubs and streets by the City Fathers in the name of Progress resulted in the scattering Clapham's population being moved to various remote dwellings built in fields around Gloucester's rural perimeter. This resulted in robbing the older folks of their mutually supportive culture, causing them to swiftly die in their hordes. There is particular reference to one Alec Redburn, an old-established and popular local shopkeeper who refused to move from his tiny shop home until it was the last building standing in acres of rubble. Then the bulldozers attacked and progressively demolished it whilst he was still inside it. Only then did his spirit founder, and he allowed his daughter to lead him out weeping. As was the case with so many more, he quickly died of a broken heart.

About the Author :
Donald Bullock was born in Gloucester's Clapham in the early 'Thirties and was educated at Kingsholm Junior School, Tuffley Open Air School, and the notorious National School. His was an adventurous and perceptive childhood spent in every corner of the earthy and parochial Gloucester of the 'Thirties, in its then close and rolling countryside, and on the banks of its rivers, streams and pools.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780954195809
  • Publisher: Wheatley Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Wheatley Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0954195809
  • Publisher Date: 16 Dec 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: All Good Things....


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