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Shillingstone Station: Gallery
Here is a selection of photos taken at locations which are featured in the novel.
I took them in July 2015 and so a little imagination is needed to see them in the story’s original light (some back in 1960, some in the darkness of night, others in brighter summer sunshine, several with a different season’s vegetation), but the essence of place has not tangibly changed at all.
SPOILER ALERT! It’s probably best not to read the captions until you’ve read the novel!
* Click on a picture for an enlarged view
Cheshire Cheese and Camembert is the third and final part of what, somewhat inadvertently, has become a Hydonian trilogy.
Loosely following on from Blessèd are the Meek and Twenty-six Nil, the story takes place during the early years of the twentieth century and much of the action has moved from Hyde to Salford, and principally around the docks at the eastern end of the Manchester Ship Canal. Walter Rowbotham's best man, Charlie Knott, now a middle-aged man with a steady job, tells the story about how he, his family and his friends come to terms with the modern world and the challenges it poses, not least the conflict that grips Europe in 1914.
There is much more about the new novel on the Books page...
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