Chronicles From The Edge

For fifty years Keith Skipper has earned his living as writer, broadcaster and entertainer. "So where," he asks, "has all this flirting with the real things of life led me? Still living on the edge at Cromer next door to the North Sea... perhaps it's a perfect location for someone not quite sure of the best way to counter fears of Norfolk turning into somewhere just like everywhere else." How to marry the best of the old with the least worrying of the new? Even after five decades, he admits, "I am none the wiser."

Beccles Schooldays:1930–1948. Recollections and Reflections.

In these linked autobiographies, David Woodward and Colin Baker recall their early life as schoolboys in Beccles in the 1930s and 1940s. Their separate reflections paint a picture of family, town and school life, and of some of the people, often unusual ‘characters’, and fellow pupils they came across.

Dennis Horn - Racing for an English Rose

At the age of 20, Dennis Horn won his first English Rose - the emblem of a National track champion. Throughout the 1930s he rapidly graduated from the rough and tumble of makeshift grass track racing at country fairs and gala sports days in provincial towns to assail the heights of British track cycling on the great urban cycling bastions of the time - the hard-surfaced stadiums of London's Herne Hill and Manchester's Fallowfield - and become the star of British track racing.