Publications
When Skies Were Always Blue: Memories of a Lewes boyhood, by W. F. Wells, published 26 November 2004 (64 pp., The Friends of Lewes Society & printed at Pomegranate Press, ISBN-10: 0954258797 & ISBN-13: 9780954258795) accessible at: The Friends of Lewes & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:Illustrated with his drawings of the family home in West Street, Lewes, this memoir by the late W.F. (Bill) Wells brings to life a world between the two world wars that has gone for ever - a humble Sussex upbringing without television or telephone, radio or refrigerator, central heating or even electric light.
Blessed with vivid recall, the author takes us through the streets of the county town, savouring its fairs, markets and shops. He recalls his first sight of an aeroplane and taking train trips, third class, to the seaside. We follow him to school and church, and savour the thrill of the circus.
If life was harder then, it had no shortage of joys. As he writes in an epilogue, "What fun that boy had yesterday!"
Blessed with vivid recall, the author takes us through the streets of the county town, savouring its fairs, markets and shops. He recalls his first sight of an aeroplane and taking train trips, third class, to the seaside. We follow him to school and church, and savour the thrill of the circus.
If life was harder then, it had no shortage of joys. As he writes in an epilogue, "What fun that boy had yesterday!"