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Extracts from Growing Up in Wartime Somerset

to be published by The History Press, 30th May 2011

www.thehistorypress.co.uk

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Growing up in Wartime Somerset A Portrait in Watercolour

Syd Durston

ISBN: 978-0-7524-6172-4

To be published by The History Press on 30th May 2011, at £12.99

Syd Durston celebrates the Somerset of years gone by through

his charming sketches and memories depicting life

on the Somerset Levels and the Polden hills

Contains more than 120 paintings, sketches and drawings, it will delight

residents and visitors alike.

Foreword from Maev Kennedy, heritage correspondent for The Guardian.

Shows Somerset scenes not portrayed in photographs of the time.

This is how one boy remembers life in rural Somerset during World War

Two.

Syd Durston grew up in Somerset, and then worked as a professional boxer

and PE teacher before returning to his childhood home. There he focused on

working the land and building. He was always making things – doors,

furniture – and in 1993 he began to paint in watercolour. Syd is now a

professional artist, and this collection of his paintings has been exhibited all

over the South West in places such as The Corinium Museum in Cirencester

and the Holburne Museum of Art, Bath. Syd lives in Bridgwater.

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