This fascinating personal history describes John Langley’s childhood in poverty in Hove before the First World War, his apprenticeship at the age of 13 on the railway in Brighton, the progression of his career as a railway carriage painter and the good and bad times of Brighton family life. The account of the harshness of working lives at the time and the grinding poverty in which many people were brought up in Brighton and Hove make this an important autobiographical document, dating from 1976.
Editorial team: Debbie Bernstein, I Bullock, D Burns, J DeLungo, Penny Dunne, Cathy Edwards, J Garner, John Goodman, M Jones, Pauline Jones, Frances Murray, Penny Summerfield, Robin Thornes, P Vincent, R Watchorn, Eileen and Stephen Yeo
