O My Hornby and My Barlow Long Ago by Kenneth Shenton
Drugs, decadence, poetry and cricket, all feature strongly in this volume on the Preston born poet, Francis Thompson.
Fast approaching half a century of active involvement in the world of cricket, both as an umpire and administrator, Kenneth Shenton's earliest memories of the game are of his father opening the bowling for his local team, Nantwich, at that time based on The Barony, and playing a leading role in the life of The North Staffs and South Cheshire Cricket League. Astutely captained as always by their legendary and long serving wicket keeper, Geoff Bull, at that time the runs constantly flowed from the bat of the club's revered Indian test star, Gulabrai Sipahimalani Ramchand. Born, like his father, in the small Cheshire market town, Kenneth Shenton was educated at Edleston Road Primary School and Nantwich and Acton Grammar School. While there he studied the organ with the distinguished Organist of St Mary's Parish Church, Harold Kirkham. He then went on to read music at the University of London, before undertaking postgraduate studies at Keble College, Oxford. After teaching locally for some years, he then spent some thirty three years as Director of Music at one of the north west's leading independent schools. As a writer, a regular contributor to publications as diverse as The Cricketer and The Church Times, he also compiles obituaries for the national press. As a broadcaster, he has both written and narrated numerous documentary programmes across the air waves. These include everything from Promenade Concert interval talks on Radio Three, The Resort Without Peer on Radio Two and, on Radio Three, a centenary tribute to the eminent musicologist and composer, Elizabeth Poston, intriguingly titled Tinker, Tailor, Composer, Spy. His publications range from The Songs of C.B. Rootham to The Complete Organ Works of Basil Harwood. Married with two daughters, he lives on the Fylde Coast.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780993487262 |
| ISBN 10 | 0993487262 |
| Title | O My Hornby and My Barlow Long Ago |
| Author | Kenneth Shenton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Max Books |
| Year published | 2019-11-18 |
| Number of pages | 172 |
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