The Langley Boy Raising the Red Flag
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The story begins with a blossoming romance in Cookham, a students life at Birmingham University, being under the surgeons knife, marriage, fatherhood, and a coveted Civil Engineering degree. The book reveals the grim reality of living in London with a small child, Harold Wilsons Lets Go with Labour election campaign, a move to Timperley in Cheshire, a divorce, a child custody case, and becoming a chartered civil engineer.
The contents provide a cameo history of the Labour Partys activities in Timperley Ward 2 and East Central Ward in the Borough of Altrincham during the period 1964 to 1974, the authors attempts to become a parliamentary candidate and his experiences as an Altrincham Borough Councillor.
Cupids arrow at Timperley Hockey Club leads to marriage to Hilary, a new home, tackling Wainwrights Fells in the Lake District, family holidays in Anglesey and Burnham-on-Sea, boat building, school trips and entertaining nephews and nieces.
The author includes intriguing anecdotes of his work at Stockport and Manchester, and describes the management of a direct labour force during a period of massive sewer collapses, the taming of recalcitrant developers and contractors, the resurfacing the citys highways, and the exploration the vast subterranean network of Victorian sewers, which lie below the citys streets. The story concludes with his success in becoming the Assistant City Engineer (Construction) for Swansea City Council.
Charles Tyrie
Charles Tyrie lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife Hilary. He is a chartered civil engineer and has spent most of his career in local government, where he worked in Manchester, Swansea and Rushcliffe. He is now retired and has written, The Manchester Vendetta a work of fiction, inspired by his work in Manchester and the summer holidays spent on the island of Anglesey. His first publication is The Langley Boy, part one of a trilogy, which covers his childhood years in Langley, Buckinghamshire, and captures the life of a small community in wartime Britain and growing up during the post war years of austerity.
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