Suburban boy

Description:

"It was while we lived in Herbert Road that I acquired my toy box ... It was quite large enough for me to climb into and it became by turns a boat, a cave or a house, according to which story or character was exercising my imagination at the time."Suburban Boy is the charming story of a bygone era, of a boy who grew up in south-east London in the 1930s. Adrian Bristow came from that great unsung mass - the lower middle-class. He grew up in the years before the war, a time of rising standards of living, burgeoning home ownership and social mobility. It was a time when there was respect for authority and a strong consciousness of nation and empire.

subjects: Childhood and youth,  Middle class,  Biography,  Large type books,  Social conditions,  History,  Social life and customs,  Manners and customs

People: Adrian Bristow (1926-)

Places: England,  London,  Woolwich (London, England),  Great Britain,  Woolwich

Times: 20th century,  George V, 1910-1936,  Edward VIII, 1936,  George VI, 1936-1952,  1918-1945