High Street Tales: Stories Capturing the Everyday Magic of High Streets

By Historic England

Drawing on real voices, hidden stories and local legends, seven specially-commissioned 'High Street Tales' explore the everyday magic of England’s high streets.
In autumn 2020, eight contemporary writers in England worked with their local communities to create seven specially-commissioned modern tales. In 'Time and the Shoe Man', Celia Bryce explores North Shields high street in an evocative and otherworldly tale which follows a mysterious character on his journey down roads and through streets of the past to return a lost shoe to its home.
Other stories include 'In Between Days' by Merrie Joy Williams, who has based her tale on Woolwich High Street, 'Flying' by Maria Whatton (Wednesbury), 'Borrowed Ground' by Robin Pridy (Hastings), 'All the Secret Postcards' by Rod Duncan (Leicester), 'The Women of Number 11' by Rebecca Tantony (Weston-super-Mare) and 'Under the watchful eyes of seagulls' by Ellie McKinlay-Khojinian and Ligia Macedo (Great Yarmouth).
High Street Tales features an introduction by writer Andy Miller (author of 'The Year of Reading Books Dangerously'). The eight writers have also narrated each of their stories for a podcast series ‘High Street Tales’.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Historic England
• Release date: Aug 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005779849

Historic England

We are Historic England the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England’s spectacular historic environment, from beaches and battlefields to parks and pie shops. We protect, champion and save the places that define who we are and where we’ve come from as a nation. We care passionately about the stories they tell, the ideas they represent and the people who live, work and play among them. Working with communities and specialists we share our passion, knowledge and skills to inspire interest, care and conservation, so everyone can keep enjoying and looking after the history that surrounds us all.

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