Schoolboy, Servant, GWR Apprentice
In 1890, after strings were pulled by his kindly mistress at the big house, 16-year-old page-boy Alfred Plumley unexpectedly found himself leaving domestic service and beginning an apprenticeship with the GWR. High-spirited Alfred quickly comes to love his new life and, undeterre… Celý popis ↓
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Schoolboy, Servant, GWR Apprentice
In 1890, after strings were pulled by his kindly mistress at the big house, 16-year-old page-boy Alfred Plumley unexpectedly found himself leaving domestic service and beginning an apprenticeship with the GWR. High-spirited Alfred quickly comes to love his new life and, undeterred by an unhappy temporary posting to the great city of Bristol, ends up spending 45 years a GWR employee. Based on his own eloquent memoir, this book uses Alfred's two years as a lad porter at a Somerset village station to explore the importance of the railways in 19th century rural life.
Alfred's words evoke a time when life was harder but pleasures were simple, friendships were lasting - and the railway was
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