THE ROCHESTER TAPES PART 1

THE AUTHOR

“Oh look!’ says the five year old child hanging on to mother’s coat.  ‘I can see a funny little man.  Look over there!  He’s climbing into that window’.  ‘Don’t be silly’ says her mother. ‘There’s nothing there’.”

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“I’ve told this story only once before and I regretted it.”

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There is a ship and she sails the sea

She’s laden deep as deep can be

But not as deep as the love I’m in

I know not if I’ll sink or swim.

John Earl has spent the greatest part of his working life on various aspects of historic buildings preservation.  

Recently he has been concerned exclusively with historic theatres.  This has probably given him more enjoyment than many people find in their daily work, but he has always regretted that he was unable to spend more time in creative writing.

Disruptive as the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 were to many working people, particularly to those with young families, they provided him with the space he needed to complete this book.