memoir

Nana used to tell me about her great grandfathers, Samuel Downing who owned a steel works in Birmingham in the second half of the 19th century and got rich, and James Williams who was a cornishman who worked for Richard Tangye’s engineering firm also in Birmingham and apparently according to family lore “invented the crane” … Read more

I was reading about fathers who write memoirs that barely mention their own family. I don’t often write too much about mine because it feels private and personal and also that is the part of my life that contains my strongest and most complex emotions so it’s the hardest subject matter to write about. But … Read more