The Joy of Sheds
Published on 7. November 2013
300 pages
978-1-909396-51-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Joy of Sheds is a shed miscellany that chronicles man's need for a small space on his own. It's a humorous look at every aspect of the shed experience, mixed with shed facts and some practical information too.
Many famous people have created in sheds. Inventor Trevor Baylis thought up the clockwork radio in a shed, George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalian in one and Dylan Thomas would compose poetry in his. The average UK male does not tend to devote his shed to poetry, though
Many famous people have created in sheds. Inventor Trevor Baylis thought up the clockwork radio in a shed, George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalian in one and Dylan Thomas would compose poetry in his. The average UK male does not tend to devote his shed to poetry, though
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
8,88 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-909396-51-7 (9781909396517)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
05/2012
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€16.50
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Person
Frank Hopkinson joined My Guy magazine as a photo-story writer in 1980 eventually becoming editor in 1987 and Group Editor of My Guy, Loving and Look In! in 1992. He bought the titles from IPC Magazines in 1995 and continued to publish My Guy as a monthly until 2000. All of his living relatives have appeared in photo-stories.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Shed History
- Hidden in a Shed
- Sheds in Music
- Created in a Shed
- Shed Art
- Sheds in the News
- Shed Lit
- Shed Facts
- Shed TV
- Sheds at the Movies
- Speciality Sheds
- Shed Imposters
- Sensible Shed Talk from the 1950s
