Our Small Corner - Sid Manville

Queenspark Books

This autobiography is the sequel to Sid Manville's Everything Seems Smaller. It recalls memories of friends, neighbours and relatives who made up the 'small corner' of Sid's neighbourhood in Bear Road, Brighton in the Twenties and Thirties. Sid writes with much affection and humour, although he doesn't forget that this was also a time of great hardship for working class people. His own mother and father struggled to bring up a large family at a time when it was considered fortunate to have any kind of job, no matter how poorly paid. Although times have changed, lack of employment is still a feature of many people's lives in twenty-first century Brighton and Hove.