Reference
X941/1/32
Title
Bunny Oliver Remembers. Reminiscences of King's Lynn, Luton, Grimsby & elsewhere by Derek John Oliver. Edited by Richard Oliver. Bound typed manuscript.
Date free text
1800 - 2024
Production date
From: 1800 To: 2024
Scope and Content
Family history details for the Olivers, childhood and employment reminiscences. Contains:
Chapter 1 - The 'Lynn Olivers'
Chapter 2 - The Scotts of Norfolk Street, Lynn
Chapter 3 - Kings Lynn in the 1920s and 1930s: markets, Scotts and Uncle Butter
Chapter 4 - Luton: Ashburnham Road and Dallow Road (1920s and 1930s)
Chapter 5 - Dunstable School (1920s and 1930s)
Chapter 6 - Hobbies, cars and Norfolk holidays
Chapter 7 - Working for a living, Cassi, and the R.A.F.V.R. (Luton to Leagrave)
Chapter 8 - Overseas: 1936 - 1949
Chapter 9 - The Formation of the Home Guard in Bedfordshire
Chapter 10 - Laporte: history and personalities
Chapter 11 - Titanium Pigments: Their birth, development and demise
Chapter 12 - Grimsby & Redhill: Battery Works and the Fuller Earth Union
Chapter 13 - Some missed opportunities
Chapter 14 - 'Some old Spanish customs'. Almeria and Minas de Gador
Chapter 15 - Two coach trips: Savoy, 1989 and Eastern Europe, 1995
Chapter 16 - A journey beyond the Iron Curtain: Russia 1996
Chapter 17 - Travels in the Orient and Journeys to the Muslim world
Chapter 18 - From Palmyra to Petra
Chapter 19 - Zimbabwe and Mauritius, September 1998
Chapter 20 - A Miscellany 1945 - 2000 . Including a birthday poem, letters written by the author, articles on nature (frogs, badgers, squirrels) written for the Woldingham parish magazine.
Appendix 1 - Derek Oliver: A Chronology 1914 - 2007
Appendix 2 - Walter Murton's trip on an 'ordinary' (penny farthing bicycle) and via train , June 1880.
Includes references to Kings Lynn - Sutton Bridge - Spalding - Bourne - Colsterworth - Corby - Grantham - Newark - Carlton - Tuxford - East Retford - Doncaster - Ferry Bridge - York - Durham - Newcastle - Edinburgh - Stockton on Tees - North Allerton
Appendix 3 - William Ewart's diary for 1928
Appendix 4 - Kingsway Tip (contains details from X941/ ??)
Appendix 5 - Derek Oliver: record of travel - journeys made 1930-2007
Level of description
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