Red cloth with gilt titles to spine is very clean and neat. Dust wrapper is dust and finger marked with a number of small chips and short tears. There is a uneven coffee stain to the back of the dust jacket.
Description
Hardback. 151pp. Signed copy. Reminiscences of a publican from the Stanhope Hotel, Rodley, Leeds. Jack Showers went on to be the landlord of the New Inn, Appletreewick which in 1971 became Britain's first smoke free pub. Reporters were sent, one noting: “Sometimes the equivalent of a golden apple drops into a reporter’s lap – some person so vivid, theatrical and unguarded that the writer’s job is pretty well taken care of; he just needs to get it down. Showers was like that.” 11 photographic plates by Herbert Mounsey - including one where Sooty shows Harry Corbett uses chopstick. Jacket design and cartoons by T. H. B. Russell. Inscribed and signed on the title page by the author: "To Eileen Potts With Best Wishes John G. Showers." The front endpaper then has several dedications: "Two days after Guy Fawkes Day 1958" is followed by "To Eileen Potts, With our very best wishes from Richard and Micaela Nevin /In Memory of a very happy evening at the 'Stanhope.' / Witnessed by:- Mrs Jones John Hoyle" . then added at the bottom is "Sincerely Sylvie [sic] Norman." Sylvia Norman, an actress and singer who had the occasional TV part in shows like the Gold Old Days and Sykes, was performing at The Stanhope. Also enclosed is the programme for The Stanhope Hotel for the week ending November 9th, 1958.12pp. Stapled pamphlet. Mainly local adverts plus menus for the hotel. The adverts are for businesses in the Leeds, Harrogate, Horsforth etc., most now long gone.
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