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THE MERITS OF A STRAIGHT BACK LIFT:

Rigby, TJ — player & gentleman

                                                    BOB O’BRIEN

 

Preface  1 Lancashire and Kilkenny heritage  2 Miramar identity  3 Customs Department Cadetship  4  Joe, Harry, Norm — sporting role models  5 Sports development and other commitments  6 Foreign pitches  7 Tea break reflections  8 Rongotai in extra time  9 Stumps soon?   Sources

             (Book – 144 pp, illustrated, hard cover)

 

 

SEATOUN SOCCER : one hundred years

BOB O’BRIEN

 

Foreword and introduction  1  Charlie’s Boys  2 Seatoun Park  3 The Boys Grow Up 1909 – 22  4 Seatoun and New Zealand  5  In the Dunelands 1923 — 35  6 Flashes of Light  1936 — 48  7 Ben, Little Joe, and  the Mangler  8 Running Things  9 Full Water 1949 — 1958  10  All Abroad  11 Breath, Ball-skills, Brains  12 Echoes of Charlie Webb  13  Paying for It All  14 Changing Shorelines 1959 –69 15  All In  1975 2009  16 Steeple Rock 1970 — 84  17 Badges, Medals, Trophies   18  After the Game  19 Re-Piling the Wharves 1980 — 89  20  Another Set of Spring Tides  1900 — 99  21 Tests of Sea-Worthiness in the New Century?  22  Who Knows What?

             (ISBN : 978-0-473-15213-0;  Book – 100 pp, illustrated, hard cover)

 

 

 

I WAS LUCKY     1922 – 2009

KEN  G  ORMAN

 

Introduction. Preface 1 School Days  2  Employment and Enlistment  3 Pilot Training  4 Pilot Training Success  5  Bomber Command  6 HK659 XY-Q  Lancaster  Queenie  7 RAF Stradishall 1944 – 45  8  VE Day then VJ Day 1945  9  Repatriation + Emigration= Matrimony  10 Southern West-Coast Assignment  11 Local Body Engineering  12 Retirement  13  Family Trees? And Appendices

             (Book – 144 pp, illustrated, hard cover)

 

 

 

 

 

 

API’I’ANGA KI TE TEREORA NEI

(Rarotonga, Kelburn, and North London, too)

1953—1965     BOB O’BRIEN

 

 

BOB’S READING, WRITING, TEACHING, & MAKING BOOKS

 

During my final years at Seatoun School I travelled by tram most Fridays after school to Wellington Public Library in Mercer St. In the children’s section of the library I borrowed a copy or two to take home to read, but I also spent time at a second-hand book shop just around the corner from the Willis St tram stop, before the tram ride back to Seatoun terminus.

I also delivered newspapers in the afternoon  and later switched to the early morning start - thus being able to buy a weekly “Champion” magazine from Harry McFarlane’s shop. My English teachers at Rongotai College supplied reading lists and recommended my buying books when I could afford them. I acted on this advice and once I had begun teaching I began subscribing to a weekly English magazine, “The New Statesman”.

I kept these habits in mind during my following teaching roles; sports and education administrative interests; and book publishing and traditional  binding upon retirement from teacher education.

“Api’ianga ki te Tereora nei” is the 29th volume produced by Dorset Enterprises and is a collation of samples of former pupils’ and Bob’s writing to be passed on to the five Thomson and O’Brien grand-children in the hope that they all may possibly explore similar pursuits in their later lives.

You will see from the list of the books on the last pages of this publication that several other members of the family have produced something, too, about parts of their lives. This is what I hoped would happen after I had been taught how to try my hand at book-binding.

Hoorah!   (Bob O’Brien   Seatoun, 2010)

 

 

 

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