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    The Beginning Thoughts and Recollections of Terry Dactyl
    The Beginning Thoughts and Recollections of Terry Dactyl
    The Beginning Thoughts and Recollections of Terry Dactyl
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    The Beginning Thoughts and Recollections of Terry Dactyl

    By Brian Leo Lee

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    A short story of the past. How much can you remember? Do you want to remember? Terry makes the effort and surprises himself.
    He tells the tale of how he saw the world through the eyes of a growing child in the 1940s.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Leo Lee
    Release dateJul 30, 2011
    ISBN9781466138247
    The Beginning Thoughts and Recollections of Terry Dactyl
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    Brian Leo Lee

    The author was born in Manchester. On leaving school, a period in accountancy was followed by a teaching career in Primary Education.Several years of telling his own stories to his two, then young children, when on camping holidays, led to the development of his many story characters, especially Bouncey the Elf. Now retired, living in South Yorkshire.Latest books,Tales from Sty-Pen –Swerlie-Wherlie’s New FriendSwerlie-Wherlie Meets Sox the FoxSwerlie-Wherlie and Bulfrey the Bull'Trimefirst' and 'Domain of the Netherworld', written under the pen name, Brian Leon Lee.

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      The Beginning Thoughts and Recollections of Terry Dactyl - Brian Leo Lee

      IThe Beginning:

      Thoughts and Recollections

      of Terry Dactyl

      Brian Leo Lee

      Published by Brian Leo Lee

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011

      Cover and Illustrations

      Brian Leo Lee

      Copyright 2019

      The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      All rights reserved

      ***

      Memories of long ago, do they come as a flash, a sudden thought from out of nowhere. Do present days' experiences jolt you to a time when you were much younger?

      Are you happy to relive those thoughts or do you try to hide them by pretending they never happened. Can you be sure that they really did happen to you, or are they figments of your imagination, to be manipulated as you please.

      Occasionally, do you try to piece together your life so far? To link the events which may have had positive or negative effects. Which even now, today, you might wish had never happened. I have and this is what I remembered about my early years.

      Terry Dactyl

      **

      1

      First things first, I was born in Manchester, 16th November 1937. My dad Dougie Dactyl and mother, Mildred (Malloy) lived at 18 Moodle Lane, Central Manchester. He worked in an engineering factory.

      Early recollections standing on a Booth Hall Children’s hospital bed, aged two or three, listening to a song on the ward radio, 'You are My Sunshine'. I was in for a tonsil operation, so I was told, many years later.

      Also, around that time, of walking up the path to our new house with a front garden, a semi, in Newfield Crescent, Crossacres, Wythenshawe, Manchester. (Later to become one of the countries largest overspill housing estates)

      My brother Edwin was born in Blackpool, June 1940. My mother and I had been evacuated from Manchester because of the threat of German bombers. We then returned to Newfield Crescent some months later.

      Our house suffered from some damage when a bomb landed two roads away and debris crashed through the roof. This must have been the December 1940 raid on Manchester, which was hit quite badly, according to the news reports.

      The air raid situation led to the installation of an Anderson bomb shelter in our back garden. This was a hole in the ground into which curved corrugated steel sheets were fixed. The top half was then covered with soil. You had to climb down into the dark interior, through a small entrance.

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      Inside there were four wooden bunk beds with interlocking cloth strips as the bed base.

      Crossacres was only three or four miles from Ringway airport, which at that time, was a war target.

      Air raid warning

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