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Making the Best of Things - The Autobiography of a Camberwell Lad (Hardcover)
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Making the Best of Things - The Autobiography of a Camberwell Lad (Hardcover)
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Making the Best of Things is a record of the experiences of its
author, Len Williams, over a period of more than thirty years. His
narrative opens with a vivid and engaging memoir of childhood and
adolescence in Camberwell during the 1910s and early 1920s, and
culminates in a personal and anecdotal history of the Second World
War, during which he served with the Auxiliary Fire Service and
with an RAF Maintenance Unit (60 MU) based in Yorkshire and other
parts of England. The central chapters are concerned with the
changing fortunes of the Williams family during the 1920s and
1930s, offering an evocative account of the era of the Depression
from the perspective of one who toiled, with little hope of
advancement, as part of London's army of shopworkers. Williams
presents these memoirs as a candid history of his family, and more
particularly as his testimony with regard to an extraordinary and
disturbing family secret uncovered in the wake of his father's
death. The scope of the work quickly broadens, however, to form a
rich and detailed panorama of his surroundings in Camberwell, one
that pays special attention to the places he knew intimately,
including Stobart Mansions, Kimpton Mission, the United Kingdom Tea
Company and the Camberwell Green branch of the Royal Arsenal
Cooperative Society. Making the Best of Things is a meticulous and
absorbing recreation of a lost world, offering masterful
descriptions of the rituals and routines of ordinary life as
Williams knew it, as well as first-hand accounts of many of the
more momentous episodes in London's history, including Zeppelin
raids, Armistice Night, the General Strike and the Blitz. This new
edition, which collects these memoirs into a single volume for the
first time, features editorial notes, an index, and a series of
appendices relating to Williams's father and other members of his
family. Making the Best of Things is also copiously illustrated
with photographs and maps.
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