Book characters

 The characters of the book, all those that I meet in adult hood. There are some in childhood that I could include.

for example Alf, who worked at the railway station. Alf Later became mayor of the town. The juxtaposition of a man who worked on the railways and mayor seems interesting. It was he and his wife who campaigned for a chain of office. In other words they wanted money spent on a large piece of jewellery for them to wear.

There was a ticket inspector at the railway station. Seem to be there forever, as if he was hundreds and hundreds of years old. He had brill creamed hair. So I guess he was young in the 1950s and I met him in the 1970s, and he was still there when I left in the 1990s. I wonder what became of him.

There were the neighbours. The ones that put up the big fence. One of them or maybe both used to play the electric organ. which we could hear from our home as they played it at the rear of theirs. He worked at critals, the window factory, as a night watchman.