THE BOY AT WILLOWS END: GROWING UP IN THE FENS IN 1940. By Frank Wrigley. Illustrated by the author.

1999 1st edition. 8vo paperback (148 x 210mm). Ppvi,202. B/w illustrations by the author.

Fishing, 'fowling and country-life in war-time Fenland. "If the reader takes a map of the Fens and draws a triangle through Wisbech, Downham Market and Ely, he will not find Willows End." This is Frank Wrigley's memoirs of the Fens of his childhood, presented as a narrative taking in the period June 6th 1940 to December 6th 1940, giving order to accounts of real events which would otherwise have lacked satisfactory organisation. Chapters include: Local Defence Volunteers; The weapons of war; The army arrives; 'Thanks for the memory'; The Captain's wife arrives; Blenheims at Bodney; The secret pool; Rattin'; Wings for victory dance; Daggy Flegg's shack; 'Aren't them stars bootiful'; Bombs fall on the village; The skating party; Goodby to the fen.