{"product_id":"echoes-from-the-hills-richard-tempest-9781036920876","title":"Echoes From The Hills: Memoirs of a Bradford lad, born 1907","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEchoes From The Hills\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating insight into a world gone by: a world of pop shops and puddlers, soldiers and sanatoria, brass bands and brickyards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBradford-born in 1907, when Britain ruled a mighty empire but some children went to school barefoot, Richard Tempest - a largely self-educated, working-class Yorkshireman who entered employment aged twelve - had a lifelong thirst for knowledge and cultivated many interests, including music, literature, and Yorkshire dialect. He was also a writer; starting in the mid 1950s, he wrote many short stories and poems - some of which, narrated by Richard himself, were featured on the long-running BBC radio programme \u003cem\u003eThe Northcountryman\u003c\/em\u003e.  This book, an anthology of some of Richard's recollections and poems, provides a  first-hand account of what life in working-class West Yorkshire was like in the  first half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite being raised by a neglected, put-upon mother and a feckless father who abandoned the family on his  fifteenth birthday, Richard displayed endless determination, working in various tough manual jobs and volunteering for military service on India's North-West Frontier, where he contracted the illness that eventually saw him invalided home. He met his future wife, Edna, during the four years he spent in Grassington Sanatorium. After their marriage, the couple settled in their beloved 'House on a Hill' near Halifax, and it was here that Richard died, in 1975.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Tempest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1036920879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781036920876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard William Tempest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d","brand":"Richard Tempest","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801023426815,"sku":"9781036920876","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/echoes-from-the-hills-richard-tempest-9781036920876","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}