Category Archives: Bradford

It’s Here

Posted on December 17, 2021 by charliecountryboy

So, twenty years in the making, I think I beat The Godfather 2 😂 But I finally published my book. The Siege of Mr Khan’s Curry Shop. And now it’s in paperback. The idea came to me twenty years ago. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Blogging, Books, Bradford, Life, Writing | Tagged 1970'S, 1974, Author's Life, Blogging, Book Reviewers, Books, Bradford, Debut Novels, Editing, Life, New Books, Novels, Reviews, Writing, Writing Life | 66 Comments

Nearly There!

Posted on December 12, 2021 by charliecountryboy

After months of editing, rewrites, more editing and finally…. Formatting my book, I have proof copies to read. It’s kinda exciting but at the same time I think I probably know it off by heart 😂 Bradford in 1974.Billy Lynch … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Books, Bradford, Fiction, Life, Writing | Tagged 1970'S, Blog, Blogging, Books, Bradford, Charlie Robinson, Human Interest, Life, Love, Reflections, Writer, Writing | 38 Comments

‘It’s a Rat Trap, Billy and you’ve been conned 😂

Posted on July 25, 2020 by charliecountryboy

Why are youngsters put under pressure to choose a career? Now call me cynical but it’s all down to taxes. If we are all ‘good,’ go to school, study hard, get a good job, marry, buy a house, (debt) have … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, Freedom, Humour, Life, Opinion, people | Tagged Bradford, Career Advice, Careers, Debt, Grattan, Tax, Teenagers, Work | 41 Comments

What’s So Special About the Past?

Posted on June 20, 2020 by charliecountryboy

The alarm clacks its two bells at six am and I can hear Chuck Berry’s, ‘My Ding a Ling’ playing somewhere in the house. Normally I go back to sleep – I am only fifteen and a full day in … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life | Tagged 1970'S, 1972, Child Labour, Chuck Berry, Days Gone by, Engineering, Factories, Factory Work, Fifteen, Glory Days, Life, My Ding a Ling, Remember, Reminiscing | 61 Comments

Clouds, Kids, Love and Soul

Posted on June 13, 2020 by charliecountryboy

The mournful clouds oppress my soul. Of course, we have to presume: A- I have a soul and B – If I have, could it be oppressed. But it’s better than saying, ‘I’m sick of the rain,’ isn’t it? I … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, Freedom, Humour, Life, Love, Opinion | Tagged 1970'S, Childhood, Childhood Sweetheart, Clouds, Grass, Lazy Sunday Afternoon, Lazy Sundays, Reflections, Small Faces, Sounds and Smells, Sunshine, Teenage Liaisons, Teenage Love | 59 Comments

Memories, Smells and The Bus

Posted on June 6, 2020 by charliecountryboy

The aroma of the bus. I have never been able to identify it. Plastic seats soaked in decayed human sweat, a definite metal acidity and stale smoke? But at six o’clock in the unearthly hours of 1973, it was easy. … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life | Tagged 1973, Albert Finney, Bus, Embassy, Parkdrive, Peter Stuyvesant, Players No6, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Senior Service, Smoking, Smoking on a Bus, The Brotherhood of Man, The New Seekers, Woodbines | 73 Comments

Another Old Girl

Posted on March 7, 2020 by charliecountryboy

“That’s the best Curry I have had in 44 years,” I said. The waiter, quite possibly the owner of the Kashmir Restaurant in Bradford gave me one of those looks. I’m kinda used to them by now. He appeared to … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, Railways, Travel | Tagged 1976, Bradford, Curry, Great Victoria Hotel, Karachi Restaurant, Kashmir Restaurant, Prostitutes, Railway Hotels, Victorians | 29 Comments

Going Back, Haworth, the Bronte’s and a Sticky Toffee Pudding

Posted on February 29, 2020 by charliecountryboy

I doubt there will ever be a Parkrun in Haworth and the Bronte Sisters must have had calf muscles to die for! In 1973 many people thought the Hovis advert had been filmed in Haworth but it was actually filmed … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, Travel | Tagged Bradford, Bronte Sisters, Cathy and Heathcliffe, Haworth, Haworth Old Hall Inn, Hovis Advert, North Yorkshire Moors, Wuthering Heights, Yorkshire Moors | 23 Comments

Should You Go Back?

Posted on February 22, 2020 by charliecountryboy

The rain bounced off the car, then came the hailstones and yes; I realised how much I hadn’t missed Bradford. I was just a kid of barely 18 when I boarded a one way flight from Leeds/Bradford Airport to Jersey, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Bradford, Humour, Life, Opinion, people, Travel | Tagged 1974, Bradford, Chellow Dene, Devils Cave, Drummond Road Boys School, Going Back, Going Back to Your Roots, Going Home, Identity, Lumb Lane, Manningham, Pound Shop, Revisiting | 35 Comments

So I Left Home

Posted on September 30, 2017 by charliecountryboy

Now then. In Yorkshire that means hello. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called Are any of us where we set out to be?’ I ended it by saying I had left home at eighteen and … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Bradford, Humour, Life, people | Tagged 1970'S, Adolescence, Bradford, Humour, Jersey, Life | 23 Comments