Book Description
A wry look back at life in a Midlands town.
Mr Handlebar in the Market Place, sneezing thurifers at St Laurences, Mad Ron at the Grammar School
Lead Us Not Into Trent Station is packed with real-life characters from 1950s and 60s Long Eaton. Those who lived through it will find the memories flooding back; those who didnt will just giggle at the chaos. Were also given a front-row seat for an epic battle against European red tape, and an hilarious reminder of the early Heath Robinson days of computers. Returning to Long Eaton in the 1990s, we meet the incomparable and incomprehensible Bazzaranshaz.
"Laugh? I nearly set fire to my chasuble!" Rev. Cannington-Smythe
"Guise hasnt got a clue." Grammar School chemistry teacher
"Herrumph!" Grammar School headmaster
"O-wowo-wowo, dop-dop-doo." Roy Orbison
About the Author
Richard Guise has also written
Neddytown: a History of Draycott & Church Wilne and
Limerick Gazetteer of Europe, both of which are also available here.