Writer and actor John Bartlett remembers an eccentric Portsmouth character and the peculiar gifts he would bring. The bitter northeasterly wind had been blowing all day bringing with it the odd flurry of icy sleet. [… read more ]
In this charming memoir, writer and actor John Bartlett describes how the Southsea we know today has changed so dramatically from the Southsea he used to visit as a boy. When I was small, I [… read more ]
Playwright and songwriter John Bartlett re-tells a darkly comic anecdote his grandmother recounted to him about her school days in late Victorian Portsmouth. “With moi hand on meself what ‘ave oi ‘ere? This is moi sweaty-boxer moi souvenir [… read more ]
In the next instalment of his memoirs, local actor and playwright John Bartlett recalls halcyon summers, a family rivalry and revenge exacted with an ice-cream cone… My favourite room in my grandparents’ house had a [… read more ]
In the first of a vivid two-part memoir, local actor and playwright John Bartlett takes us on a journey around his grandparents’ home in Emsworth – a magical place of treasures, secrets and surprises. When I [… read more ]
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