Illustrated with photographs taken from her journals and albums "Barbara – Dancing through Life" is a fascinating chronicle of a girl ‘born to dance’ with recollections of almost 70 years appearing in London and Provincial theatres in musical productions, both professional and amateur and more than 20 years appearing on our television screens.






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Alfie Dodd was born in 1939 at the start of WW2 of a Jewish mother in Stoke Newington, an area then well-known for its mixed population of mainly Christian and descendants of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. 
Through his father’s infidelity he was raised in a Christian home and was often involved in the conflict that was present between the different religious and ethical groups who lived in the East-End of London.

This is Alfie’s story and his book gives a very vivid and accurate view of how life was in the East-End of London in the 1940s and 50s..

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Joe Brearley taught English with inspiration, never without a sense of theatre and rarely without an idea of fun. Among those influenced by his teaching were the renowned internationally acclaimed playwright and Nobel Laureate, Harold Pinter and his friend Henry Woolf who were taught to love the English language, through rehearsal and performance, in poetry and Joe's play productions whilst at the (now closed) Hackney Downs School.

Following his retirement he moved to Germany and to conserve his pension took a job teaching English in a German School.


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‘Evacuees – Stories of the Children’

‘I was put on a double-decker bus and was whisked off to Ivinghoe Aston, Buckinghamshire, in the middle of England.’
We were herded on to a steam train, waved our parents a cheery good-bye, they with tears streaming down their faces, and off we went on this marvellous adventure!

So start some of the stories captured in this book.  Stories that need to be preserved and read.




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Seen From The Wings
Volume One: 1942-1944 From England to the Middle East

A second World War journal compiled from the letters of Joe Brearley.

This 305 page paperback, with contemporary illustrations (many taken by Joe himself), includes an account of being torpedoed and of riots in Cairo, alongside descriptions of Khartoum and the Nile. Joe visits the Roman City of Sabratha and enjoys some humorous moments whilst in command of a convoy from Sudan to Libya.

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