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RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive Reference / Library Class No.920 RAY
TitleBetween Charnwood and the Chevin : growing up in Derbyshire, just after the Second World War : a memoir.
Date2019
Publication Date2019
AuthorRay, Brenda
ISBN9781838591915
Further Information'Between Charnwood and the Chevin' is a snapshot of the time between post-war austerity and the start of the Swinging Sixties, a time of change, when the relative equality of the war years was being hastily shovelled back under the nice new fitted carpets. The developing suburb of Derby, where the author grew up, is described as 'an uneasy cross between the Stepford Wives and Royston Vasey'. Her family was 'ordinary enough' but could still boast a silent movie actress, a world famous philosopher, several strange family disappearances, a lot of railway folk and involvement in two civil wars. Ancestors had come from the flat lands of Lincolnshire, and others from the far south of Staffordshire, in search of work, settling in Derbyshire and Derby itself, where they stayed and flourished and which this book evokes with such affection.
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Quarndon 
Allestree 
Belper 
Milford 
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