{"product_id":"bradbury-lane-memories-9781807691288","title":"Bradbury Lane Memories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alan Baker\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Generation Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Generation Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personal Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemories grow dim and sometimes we need to jog the old brain box to remember things. I wanted something to show future generations of my family something of what it was like when I was young. I wanted to let them know I had another life before I got old and fuddy duddy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI looked round to find photos of the houses and surrounding areas where I was born and raised. Unfortunately there were very few if any around. For instance most family photos were taken down the garden or with a pretty bush as a back drop..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI decided to try and draw what I remembered. This was not as easy as I thought it would be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am a reasonable draughtsman when required as I have earned my living drawing plans and producing bills of quantities. However what I wanted was something with a bit more feeling to it. For a time I gave it up as a bad job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI semi-retired around the year 2000 and took a small job as a sort of security and odd job man near Vauxhall Bridge in London. Part of that job was to man the main switch board for a few hours. It was a pretty boring job and I started to fill in the time by drawing cartoons and sketches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sketches used to disappear and I assumed that it was the cleaner throwing them away. To my puzzlement I found that an American bloke was collecting my drawings and sending them home. So after that I did something that I was pleased with I started to save the drawings. Nothing spectacular but some of the drawings were of my childhood days and I felt that some of them captured the feel of the times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI worked with a lot of Northern and Midlands blokes and some of them liked my drawings saying that they remembered places like that. I gave a lot of pictures away but hung on to the ones I liked best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow years later, for better or worse, I have brought a few of them together\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Generation Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892140753047,"sku":"9781807691288","price":1805.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781807691288.webp?v=1781185864","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bradbury-lane-memories-9781807691288","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}