Recalling a summer to remember...
GROWING up in Cornwall at a time when tourism was at its height is the subject of a new book.
Denise Jones, of Southport, was born in London but in 1955, when she was four, her parents bought a rundown house in Holywell Bay, Cornwall, which backed on to the beach and the dunes, which they converted into holiday flats.
As a result the family were initiated into a Cornish ‘summer season’, where you couldn’t be precious about giving up your bedroom for paying guests.
In the 1960s the family moved to Newquay, Cornwall, and Denise was happily thrust into a cosmopolitan frenzy.
However, her relationship with her mum was a challenge, especially when she made her leave school at 16.
Denise was then shy and naive, and struggled to fit in with the brash and confident hotel workers from all over the country.
Despite her mum’s warning to keep away from those troublesome hotel workers, Denise became involved with a lad from Liverpool, which changed her life forever as he became her husband, and in 1969 she made her first visit to Liverpool to meet her in-laws.
The book, which is Denise’s first, is called Summer Season Shenanigans and is free to read if you belong to Kindle Unlimited, but is also available to buy from Amazon as a paperback or Kindle version, and has had some good reviews on Amazon.
Denise is not a professional writer, but has had quite a bit of success with magazine articles, competitions and numerous poems on the Liverpool Echo’s letter’s page and is a member of Formby Writers.