Beryl Bainbridge sets out to find England by retracing J.B. Priestly's famous English Journey. Using the conventions of great British travel writing, Bainbridge, with the skills of a fine novelist, updates to the present Priestly's classic Depression-era journey to the heart and soul of England.
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In 1983 Beryl Bainbridge and crew embarked on a BBC-sponsored tour from Southampton up through Manchester, then on to Milton Keynes, mirroring the route taken by J.B. Priestley in his 1933 classic, English Journey. Bainbridge pegs the British people just right, and notes the small details, such as the hundreds of starlings "perched in rows like black door-knobs" on the roof and gables of Bradford's Town Hall. She takes England's pulse, compares it to the England her family knew and to Priestley's reports of 50 years before, providing depth and poignancy to her sharp, amusing perceptions.
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A nice travelog....,
This review is from: English Journey: Or the Road to Milton Keynes (Paperback)
This book is about 158 pages long and reads like a serial in a newspaper--reminds me of Charles Kurult's bus trips across the U.S. except the camera crew travels across the U.K. Bainbridge records the daily trip in a writer's jounal. The sections are laid out in journal form covering events day by day and many of the cities warrent a separate chapter. Like a motion picture camera, Bainbridge vividly records the detail of what is to be seen -- the view from the bus, the accomodations, the food, the highlights and frustrations. Her trip begins in Southhampton, then goes to these places: Salisbury, Bristol; Cotswolds; Birmingham; Stoke-on-Trent; Mancester, Liverpool, Bradford; Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Stockton-on-Tees; York, Lincoln, and Norwhch; and ends in Milton Keynes. Baninbridge's trip is a "sort-of" southwest-northeast drive and one you might consider replicating in part if you're thinking of taking a motor trip though England. You'll miss many historic places (London), but you'll get a feel for the diversity of the land and it's people.
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Travelled by cab from Camden Town to Waterloo and was trapped for a quarter of an hour in Trafalgar Square while columns of Old Soldiers tramped down the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields and meandered towards the Mall. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Milton Keynes, Chipping Campden, Coronation Street, Peter Gilmore, Rolls Royce, Whitley Bay, Art School, Mike Jenner, Ocean Terminal, Station Hotel, Swan Hunters, Tom Hancock, Top Shop, West Gate, Auntie Nellie, Camden Town, Father Zebic, Hope Street, Madame Butterfly, Miss Purchase, Queen Elizabeth, Roy Spring, The Nook New!
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Travelled by cab from Camden Town to Waterloo and was trapped for a quarter of an hour in Trafalgar Square while columns of Old Soldiers tramped down the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields and meandered towards the Mall. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Milton Keynes, Chipping Campden, Coronation Street, Peter Gilmore, Rolls Royce, Whitley Bay, Art School, Mike Jenner, Ocean Terminal, Station Hotel, Swan Hunters, Tom Hancock, Top Shop, West Gate, Auntie Nellie, Camden Town, Father Zebic, Hope Street, Madame Butterfly, Miss Purchase, Queen Elizabeth, Roy Spring, The Nook New!
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- Caesar and Cleopatra : A History by George Bernard Shaw on page 89, and page 90
- English Journey by J. B. Priestley on page 115
- The girl in Melanie Klein by Ronald Harwood on page 26
- Laburnum Grove (Acting Edition) by J.B. Priestley on page 78
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