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    A Fine Time: The Diary of a Naive Sixteen Year Old in 1926
    A Fine Time: The Diary of a Naive Sixteen Year Old in 1926
    A Fine Time: The Diary of a Naive Sixteen Year Old in 1926
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    A Fine Time: The Diary of a Naive Sixteen Year Old in 1926

    By Connie Wickham

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    The year is 1926.
    Uncle Harry and my cousin Ciss are sailing to Canada to visit relations. I have been invited to go too. Mother and Daddy have agreed to let me go. I am sixteen and Ciss is fourteen. I think we will have a fine time. This is my diary.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    ISBN9781491880982
    A Fine Time: The Diary of a Naive Sixteen Year Old in 1926
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    Connie Wickham

    Connie Wickham was born in London in 1909 She and her cousin travelled by ship to Canada in 1926 to stay with relations. She married in 1943 and they had one daughter. She lived to be 96. Author Marianne Bailey-Wickham lives in Cornwall, UK. She has four children and seven grandchildren.

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      Book preview

      A Fine Time - Connie Wickham

      A FINE TIME

      The diary of a naive sixteen year

      old in 1926

      Connie Wickham

      Edited by Marianne Bailey-Wickham
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      AuthorHouse™ UK Ltd.

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403 USA

      www.authorhouse.co.uk

      Phone: 0800.197.4150

      © 2013 by Connie Wickham. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 11/04/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-8097-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-8098-2 (e)

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      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      Connie Wickham

      Editor’s Note

      Saturday July 24TH 1926

      Sunday July 25TH

      Monday July 26TH

      Tuesday July 27TH

      Wednesday July 28TH

      Thursday July 29TH

      Friday July 30TH

      Saturday July 31ST.

      Sunday August 1ST

      Monday August 2ND

      Tuesday August 3RD.

      Wednesday August 4TH.

      Thursday August 5TH

      Friday August 6TH

      Saturday August 7TH

      Sunday August 8TH

      Monday August 9TH

      Tuesday August 10TH

      Wednesday August 11TH

      Thursday August 12TH

      Friday August 13TH

      Saturday August 14TH

      Sunday August 15TH

      Monday August 16TH

      Tuesday August 17TH

      Wednesday August 18TH

      Thursday August 19TH

      Friday August 20TH

      Saturday August 21ST.

      Sunday August 22ND.

      Monday August 23RD.

      Tuesday August 24TH

      Wednesday 25TH August

      Thursday August 26TH

      Friday 27TH August

      Saturday 28TH August

      Sunday 29TH August

      Monday August 30TH

      Important Events

      Friday September 3RD.

      Editor’s Final Note

      CONNIE WICKHAM

      The year is 1926.

      Uncle Harry and my cousin Ciss are sailing to Canada to visit relations. I have been invited to go too. Mother and Daddy have agreed to let me go. I am sixteen and Ciss is fourteen. I think we will have a fine time. This is my diary.

      EDITOR’S NOTE

      I f two teenage girls were to travel alone to Canada these days it would be pretty amazing … . but in 1926 … !

      I’d always known that my Mother had made this trip with her cousin and I grew up hearing tales of their time in Canada but it wasn’t until the year 2005 that I came across this wonderfully detailed diary, written in pencil in a school exercise book and hidden in a drawer for eighty years.

      Not only is it an insight into travel of the 1920s but it is also a glimpse into

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