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A Fine Time: The Diary of a Naive Sixteen Year Old in 1926
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The year is 1926.
Uncle Harry and my cousin Ciss are sailing to Canada to visit relations. I have been invited to go too. Mother and Daddy have agreed to let me go. I am sixteen and Ciss is fourteen. I think we will have a fine time. This is my diary.
Uncle Harry and my cousin Ciss are sailing to Canada to visit relations. I have been invited to go too. Mother and Daddy have agreed to let me go. I am sixteen and Ciss is fourteen. I think we will have a fine time. This is my diary.
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PublisherAuthorHouse UK
Release dateNov 26, 2013
ISBN9781491880982
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Connie Wickham
Connie Wickham was born in London in 1909 She and her cousin travelled by ship to Canada in 1926 to stay with relations. She married in 1943 and they had one daughter. She lived to be 96. Author Marianne Bailey-Wickham lives in Cornwall, UK. She has four children and seven grandchildren.
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A Fine Time - Connie Wickham
A FINE TIME
The diary of a naive sixteen year
old in 1926
Connie Wickham
Edited by Marianne Bailey-Wickham
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CONTENTS
Connie Wickham
Editor’s Note
Saturday July 24TH 1926
Sunday July 25TH
Monday July 26TH
Tuesday July 27TH
Wednesday July 28TH
Thursday July 29TH
Friday July 30TH
Saturday July 31ST.
Sunday August 1ST
Monday August 2ND
Tuesday August 3RD.
Wednesday August 4TH.
Thursday August 5TH
Friday August 6TH
Saturday August 7TH
Sunday August 8TH
Monday August 9TH
Tuesday August 10TH
Wednesday August 11TH
Thursday August 12TH
Friday August 13TH
Saturday August 14TH
Sunday August 15TH
Monday August 16TH
Tuesday August 17TH
Wednesday August 18TH
Thursday August 19TH
Friday August 20TH
Saturday August 21ST.
Sunday August 22ND.
Monday August 23RD.
Tuesday August 24TH
Wednesday 25TH August
Thursday August 26TH
Friday 27TH August
Saturday 28TH August
Sunday 29TH August
Monday August 30TH
Important Events
Friday September 3RD.
Editor’s Final Note
CONNIE WICKHAM
The year is 1926.
Uncle Harry and my cousin Ciss are sailing to Canada to visit relations. I have been invited to go too. Mother and Daddy have agreed to let me go. I am sixteen and Ciss is fourteen. I think we will have a fine time. This is my diary.
EDITOR’S NOTE
I f two teenage girls were to travel alone to Canada these days it would be pretty amazing … . but in 1926 … !
I’d always known that my Mother had made this trip with her cousin and I grew up hearing tales of their time in Canada but it wasn’t until the year 2005 that I came across this wonderfully detailed diary, written in pencil in a school exercise book and hidden in a drawer for eighty years.
Not only is it an insight into travel of the 1920s but it is also a glimpse into
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