Arthur Randell

Arthur Redvers Randell (11 July 1901 – March 1988) was born near the River Great Ouse at Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen, Norfolk, near Wisbech in the United Kingdom and wrote about life in the British Fens.

Biography

During his early life he made a living from being a railway worker and a molecatcher. He was a great authority on the Fens and its people and customs. He wrote about the Blacksmith who was forced to turn to repairing farm implements and kitchen implements, the chimney sweep, the harness maker, the pig-killer, the straw worker, the maker of corn dollies and many other now extinct trades

Bibliography

Sixty years a Fenman
Fenland Railwayman
Fenland Memories^[1]

External links

River Great Ouse and its route through the Fens

Footnotes

↑ Detail taken from a copy of Fenland Memories published by Routledge and Kegan Paul (London)in 1969, and Edited by Enid Porter of the Cambridge Folk Museum

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 46910367 BNF: cb13478649n (data)

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