Vaporisings of a Locoman - Buffer Beam

‘Vaporisings of a Locoman’ is a wonderfully entertaining, variedand beautifully observed memoir by ‘Buffer Beam’ (Frank Leonard Button) of hislife early in the twentieth century. Yes, much of Frank’s life was spentworking on the railways, but this memoir takes the reader into many of thenooks and byways of a life well lived by an observant and deeply and cheerfullywitty man. For example…‘Our boss was a chemist-cum-farmer, who had boughtthis half-derelict farm, situated on the lonely... Zobrazit více