East Anglian Memories
We've been pleased to publish books recounting individual memories of times past, from people who grew up in East Anglia.
Two of our current titles in this section are personal memories of East Anglian towns before and during the Second World War. The other looks back somewhat further, with a selection of stories from the Newspaper of Norfolk and Suffolk from the 18th and 19th centuries.
I Read it in the Local Rag
A selection from the Suffolk and Norfolk newspapers from 1701 to 1900. From Ipswich to Kings Lynn, Bury St Edmunds to Norwich, Great Yarmouth to Ely, the newspapers of East Anglia are represented in this book through tragic, humorous, heart-warming, inventive, pompous and extraordinary stories.
Author Pip Wright has read hundreds of newspaper, most of them at least 150 years old. Hidden within their pages he has found an archive of remarkable stories - sad, funny, revealing, informative but always entertaining. With him we can dip into the past and see glimpses of life in times gone by. Click to hear author Pip Wright explain his interest in historic newspapers.
Pip Wright ISBN 0946148783 £12.95 
Out with the Tide
The year of 1939 was the beginning of change for many places and many lives. Living in Wells-next-the-Sea, Sheila Woods balances the excitement and fears of her own circumstances with those of a country going to war..
Sheila Woods ISBN 0946148422 £4.95 Those Seaside Days
This story begins at Liverpool Street station, with the hiss of steam and a train to the coast at Cromer. Jean Gross records the story of her childhood in the 1940s, and captures the flavour of East Anglia holidays..
Jean Grose ISBN 0946148732 £3.60 
