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Well, Wendy, why a second blog??
Because of my involvement with the Room
To Write Iconic Book Group I decided I needed another blog to explore the fact
that I and many readers and writers don't just enjoy reading we are
obsessed with books and have been most or our lives. To put it quite simply, we
love them. We love the physical nature of them, the smell, the sight of them.
This even includes the new phenomenon of the eBook.
So this second blog is
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Sylvia Hurst's memoir Laugh of Cry
Click! From Hamburg to Tantobie via Kindertransport.
...Last week, with my friends Gillian and Glynn Wales of The Writing Game I went to the small North Durham village of Tantobie to visit Sylvia Hurst nee Fleischer in her small,elegant book- and picture-filled house. just down the street from the Hotel which she ran for more than a decade.
Before that Sylvia lectured in fashion and design in a London, then a Manchester college; before that for many years she ran a very successful couture dressmaking business - which o supplied Harrods, among other companies, with fine blouses and skirts - employing many people in this business; before that she worked for the American Red Cross at the end of the war, before that she injured her knees scrubbing floors for a relative; . before that she arrived in England from Hamburg on one of the last trains full of children - the Kindertransport - which rescued unaccompanied children under seventeen from Nazi Europe.... More on this ...
Before that Sylvia lectured in fashion and design in a London, then a Manchester college; before that for many years she ran a very successful couture dressmaking business - which o supplied Harrods, among other companies, with fine blouses and skirts - employing many people in this business; before that she worked for the American Red Cross at the end of the war, before that she injured her knees scrubbing floors for a relative; . before that she arrived in England from Hamburg on one of the last trains full of children - the Kindertransport - which rescued unaccompanied children under seventeen from Nazi Europe.... More on this ...
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