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    Words on the Tide
    Words on the Tide
    Words on the Tide
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    Words on the Tide

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    Memories: this one small word contains a world of meaning. 

    This collection of short prose and poetry is an exploration of memory, drawing on history, experiences, scenes witnessed and moments in time. It mingles imagination with fact, nostalgia and clear-eyed recollection. 

    Welcome to Words on the Tide. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGL
    Release dateJun 23, 2023
    ISBN9798223728887
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      Words on the Tide - GL

      Words on the Tide

      ––––––––

      Various Writers

      All authors retain intellectual property rights over their individual writings. Their rights to be identified as authors of their works has been asserted by Gladstone’s Library in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act, 1988.

      Copyright © 2023 by Gladstone’s Library.

      All rights reserved. Designed and typeset at Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, Flintshire.

      No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by UK copyright law.

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      Cover image by Martin Falbisone. Released under CC Licence as part of the Wikimedia Commons.

      Foreword

      These pieces were created and offered up by the participants of a self-publishing class held at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Flintshire.

      Attendees were given the brief of memories, and they have created a series of pieces memorable in their variety and imaginative range.

      Read on, and remember...

      Remembering Joseph Hansom by Penelope Harris

      Joseph Hansom was a Victorian architect and contemporary of Gladstone. Aptly described ‘an unfortunate kind of a genius’, Hansom was the nineteenth-century Catholic architect who also designed the hansom cab. Architecture was his life and he fought against all odds to promote both his vocation and his profession. Competition came from the Pugin family, amidst rapid social and economic change, driven by the technology of the industrial revolution. 

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      Hansom was an icon of the Victorian age. His work traversed Scotland to Cornwall, encompassing a wide range of projects

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