[JDPUB: 106] NEW BOOK: THE CENTAUR FROM THE TRIANGLE- a boyhood in Derby- EDWARD GARNER

 

The Centaur from the Triangle- a boyhood in Derby written by Edward Garner has just been published by Just Done Productions R160

 

While Derby’s Osmaston Triangle came into existence in the early 1930s, it did not acquire its name until around thirty years later. The author explains what everyday life was like for him growing up there, part of which was the five years of World War II. After the war the boundaries of The Triangle were partially breached when he passed the scholarship that took him to the Central Grammar School at Darley Park. Pupils attending there were known as Centaurs, which explains half of the book’s title. Also described are the simple pleasures of walking in Derbyshire and the noble art of train spotting. This account ends with the author leaving school to take up the task of earning a living. While nothing exceptional, what is depicted is a way of life that has slipped beyond recall, living only in the diverse memories of many. The Triangle still exists and there are Old Centaurs still among us. However, their number is slowly decreasing for their school closed finally in the Fifties. Maybe this book will in some way serve as an archive of golden days for some of that number.

 

EDWARD GARNER was born in Derby’s Osmaston Triangle, educated at the old Derby Central School, qualifying as an Old Centaur with no academic achievements attached. He first worked on the Derby Evening Telegraph and, it being the days of compulsory National Service, chose instead a Regular Army career. The highlight of which was serving on the staff of the British Military Attaché in Moscow in the 1960s, in addition to postings to the United Nations and NATO.

After that, it was off to Ireland for many years and a career as a journalist and photographer. While there, he wrote his first book.

Eventually he returned to England and Derby with his family. He continued to write and also started to travel extensively -to date he has visited nearly forty countries and lived in nine of them.

At present he resides in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa with Mary, his partner, before which both were employed on the teaching staff of a teacher training college at Gaoyou in China’s Jiangsu province.

Once a year he returns to Derby, where his family still live, taking the opportunity to rediscover the pleasures of wandering about Derbyshire as well as visiting industrial museums and watching steam trains pass by…

 

·                     Number of Pages: 246

·                     Lulu ID: 7405141

·                     ISBN 13: 978-1-920315-32-0

·                     Photographs: Black and white throughout

·                     Binding: Perfect Bound, Paperback

·                     Size: A5

 

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