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Sorry to sound square(which i isnt!) but this guy is one of my heroes....what a life he had,short as it was and one suspects if he had written about our great friends in Manc or London he wouldve been more popular today.

That's a great read, i'm gonna get that book "Life in a Railway Factory".

Cheers Leefer.

Is that your music / website leefer?

No its not Kaufman...to be fair the music is abit naff on that cd!!!!...Ginghino bit old fashioned but all the libraries have the book if you want a read...its good.

Good, I was thinking the same as you, Story seems really interesting though, shame the music does not match up to the idea.

I recently read a biography of Williams, can't remember now who wrote it, but he was an interesting and complex man.  It's always worth having a read of his Railway book, but in some ways I prefer his recollection of life in South Marston at the turn of the 20th Century.  A classic portrait of a world about to be swept aside...a companion read can be found in Edward Thomas, not a local but someone who wrote of the district, particularly the Ridgeway and Icknield Way...before perishing like so many on a Flander's field.