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All in a Day´s Work: 30 Years as a Brighouse Bobby
Chris Helme
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Description for All in a Day´s Work: 30 Years as a Brighouse Bobby
Paperback. The funny, sad and often incredible life of a local policeman patrolling his home town Num Pages: 160 pages, 55 b & w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; BGA; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
During the 1950s, Chris Helme was often asked by relatives: 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' A policeman was always his answer. A child of the Fifties, he was brought up to respect the local police who seemed to know everyone. Suffering from colour blindness and short of a few O-Levels, Helme was finally accepted to serve in Leeds City police; however, he joined the police in Bradford a year later. By 1975, he was in the West Yorkshire Police achieving his life's ambition by serving his hometown of Brighouse and was the local policeman ... Read more
During the 1950s, Chris Helme was often asked by relatives: 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' A policeman was always his answer. A child of the Fifties, he was brought up to respect the local police who seemed to know everyone. Suffering from colour blindness and short of a few O-Levels, Helme was finally accepted to serve in Leeds City police; however, he joined the police in Bradford a year later. By 1975, he was in the West Yorkshire Police achieving his life's ambition by serving his hometown of Brighouse and was the local policeman ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781553428
SKU
V9781781553428
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Chris Helme
Chris Helme served thirty years as a police constable working twenty-six years in his hometown of Brighouse. In 1990, he was awarded the British Empire Medal for this work in his community and retired in 2001. For twenty-nine years, Helme has written a nostalgia column in his local newspaper and since retiring from the police has been commissioned to write ... Read more
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