“LINGER A-WHILE”

OR TWENTY EIGHT STORIES OF VILLAGE LIFE IN THE 1920'S
BY
JACK CALLOW

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Index

• Introduction
• Our Village
• Daiddee-Aa
• A Summer Morning
• The Muffin Man
• Souldern Park
• Razel Dazel And My Old Chicken
• William, Henry, Solomon, Joseph Coles
• Growing Peas
• A Walk Down The Cover
• Sport In The Village
• Harvest Time
• School
• Christmas Party
• Pop Gibbs
• Our Christmas
• The Gough Family
• 1926 The General Strike
• Teddy
• Joe
• Timber Carting
• Juniper Jack
• Titch The Flavoured One
• Jackdaw
• Badger Last Cattle Drover
• Chisnell Meadow
• The Last Rick
• How Our Shop Began (1930)
• Will West (Slam One)
• A Roadster
• A Good Job That Went Wrong
• Country Crafts

Scanned from an original copy provided by Anne Callow, for this site, December 2015.

The book originated from a series of interviews recorded by Radio Oxford in 1982. The recordings of the radio interviews are available in the County Library.

Scanning and conversion to HTML by David Carlisle, using Google Docs OCR.

Edited and Corrected by Anne Callow, January–February 2016.

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Copyright: Jack Callow © 1989
Book Design: James J. Hannon
Illustrations: Pip Matthews, Tackley
Drawings from the Original: Pierina, Tackley

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wish to record my gratitude to the people who helped me in the preparation of this book.

I dedicate this book to my wife and children
J. Callow. June 1989

Published by: J. RICHARDSON & Co. 50. MARSH LANE, MARSTON, OXFORD, ENGLAND

Printed by: PARCHMENT (Oxford) LIMITED PRINTWORKS, CRESCENT ROAD, COWLEY, OXFORD OX4 2PB