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Derbyshire Born By John Smith |
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From Farm Boy To Financier |
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From humble beginnings -
"The demarcation between bottom-enders and top enders was very marked and well understood in the late 1940's. The war had made little difference. This was not a proper village. Rather it was a community thrown together, first by the coal mines, later the railways." Via steam trains - "If the little engines were lovable, the giant eight and nine freights were positively awesome. Their magnificence was not dented by the quietness and stillness of being at rest in the great engine sheds. Nor was their dignity impugned by the ant-like men in boiler suits with strange sounding names who crawled over and inside them. Years later when the last working beasts in the UK had long since taken a dead-end journey to the breakers yard I was literally reduced to tears when my taxi entering Cochin in Southern India came to a shuddering stop to allow an eight freight to pass over the level crossing hauling its gargantuan load of coal. What the British introduced the ex-colonials had the sense to retain." |
Rural middle England as it was, by John Smith. "On to the corporate fast track - this rollercoaster of a story has it all." |
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Another
extract from Derbyshire born - "How Herbert did
the sorting out was a constant puzzle to me. He was such a quiet
cultured man and the outrage of certain workers had to be seen to be
believed. I think he must have had some high-level latitude to
settle and it was not unknown for “that bloody machine in Derby" to
be blamed. |
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