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Arthur & Me: Docker’s Children Item Info
- Title:
- Arthur & Me: Docker’s Children
- Description:
- Arthur & Me: Docker’s Children is a booklet published by Bristol Broadsides as part of their initiative to highlight Bristol history from the perspective of local, working-class, authors. In it, Jo Barnes recounts her experience of growing up in Bristol and in the neighboring suburb and port of Avonmouth. Born in 1941, she writes about growing up during and after WWII, as well as more mundane experiences, such as moving houses or playing with her brother Arthur. Barnes is very attuned to her family, and spends time recounting episodes like her grandmother’s experience in the Bristol textile industry and her dad’s life as a dockworker. The booklet features family photos and poems on school, childhood games, and blackout days during the Blitz bombings.
- Publisher:
- Bristol Broadsides
- Creator:
- Jo Barnes
- Date:
- 1979
- Type:
- text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Subjects:
- youth poetry childhood nostalgia working-class docks
- Latitude:
- 51.4644531133344
- Longitude:
- -2.58959930674745
- Location:
- Bristol
- Language:
- English
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Arthur & Me: Docker’s Children", Digital Collections, FWWCP
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/fwwcp/items/fwwcp_tmpid_15_124.html