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BUNCE, Gordon
THE ROAD FROM WEST BROM
Stroud, U.K Sutton 2005 0750939885 / 9780750939881 First Edition Soft Cover Fine
Signed by the author on the title-page. 128pp. A Foreword by Roy Hattersley. With 84 black-and-white photographs. The author's life to the age of eighteen was spent in West Bromwich, in an area of the Midlands called the Black Country - this name was given because after the Industrial Revolution there were so many industrial chimneys belching out smoke day and night. At the age of fourteen he worked at the Midlands Hotel, Birmingham, and 'rubbed shoulders' with many famous stars including Frank Sinatra who asked him to join him for a drink and introduced him to Ava Gardner. He fought with the 170 Mortars Royal Artillery in the Korean War of 1950-3. Then he went to work in the engineering industry working his way up to become a director at Spear and Jackson Tool Company. Bookseller's comment - A very good social history of West Bromwich from the 1930s to the 1950s. (9½"h x 6¾"w) (24.5cms x 17cms) approx.
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BUNCE, Gordon
THE ROAD FROM WEST BROM
Stroud, U.K Sutton Pub 2005 First Edition Soft Cover Fine.
Signed by the author on title-page ""Best wishes, Gordon Bunce" 128pp. A Foreword by Roy Hattersley. With 84 black-and-white photographs. The author's life to the age of eighteen was spent in West Bromwich, in an area of the Midlands called the Black Country - this name was given because after the Industrial Revolution there were so many industrial chimneys belching out smoke day and night. At the age of fourteen he worked at the Midlands Hotel, Birmingham, and 'rubbed shoulders' with many famous stars including Frank Sinatra who asked him to join him for a drink and introduced him to Ava Gardner. He fought with the 170 Mortars Royal Artillery in the Korean War of 1950-3. Then he went to work in the engineering industry working his way up to become a director at Spear and Jackson Tool Company. Bookseller's comment - A very good social history of West Bromwich from the 1930s to the 1950s. (9½"h x 6¾"w) (24.5cms x 17cms) approx.
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