in Sussex - June, 1934
from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, pages 18-19:
I spent a week by the sea, slowly edging towards the east, sleeping on the shore and working the towns… At Gosport I performed at a barrack-room concert in return for a ration of army beef. In front of Chichester Cathedral I played ‘Bless this House’, and was moved on at once by the police… At Littlehampton, I’d just collected about eighteen pence when I was moved on again by the police. ‘Not here. Try Worthing,’ the officer said. I did so, and was amply rewarded.
Worthing at that time was a kind of Cheltenham-on-Sea, full of rich, pearl-chokered invalids. Each … more >>
cite as
Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Harmondsworth, 1974), p. 18-19. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1404226724091 accessed: 5 December, 2024
Listening to
hide composersBless this House | performed by Laurie Lee |
spiritual airs | performed by Laurie Lee |
Experience Information
Date/Time | June, 1934 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:58:44 +0100