A PEMBROKESHIRE PENTACLE - Couverture souple

Jackson, George W.H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798691514180

Editeur : Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

This autobiography covers that part of the author's life from 1967 to 1984 when he experienced life in Pembrokeshire - Firstly as a holidaymaker then resident as a Police Officer serving in both Milford Haven and on his own 'patch' covering the Dale, Marloes, Little Haven and St Ishmaels area followed by a period as an administrator working with the then Herald Bard of Wales, Dillwyn Miles, in Haverfordwest and finally as the Landlord of the Brook Inn at St Ishmaels and as Town Clerk to Pembroke Town Council.The pentacle in the title is a five pointed star. The points are these five incarnations of his life and the star is the Pembrokeshire that he came to know and love. This love was shared by his family as one of his sisters and her six children, his parents and his brother all eventually followed him to the County. Such an amazing variety of incarnations provides a huge fund of revelations, anecdotes, memories and humour surrounding the people, places and events of those times.From drunks to drug smugglers, from gorse and pub fires to a raging inferno at an oil refinery, from a holed and leaking gasoline tanker on the rocks in a storm to 'shells' unexploded on the beach, from all the fun of the fair to Royal Wedding cake, from a Viking funeral for a frog to seven days snowed-in with no electricity and frozen beer, from the Herald Bard and Gorsedd Grand Sword Bearer to darts player Jocky Wilson, from SAS 'attacks' on refineries to a pig shot dead in the street. This is real social history skilfully told but with a sense of fun and a love of Pembrokeshire and its people always shining through.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798691514180
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 239
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