The Events and Happenings in the life of Peter Robert Cresswell: Volume 1: 1952

In 1952, a 16 - turning 17 - year-old Peter Cresswell picked up a maroon pocket notebook and began to write. Not with literary ambition, but with quiet purpose - to document the small, unfolding moments of his daily life at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys and in a post-war United Kingdom. His entries reveal an adolescent balancing a strict religious discipline with restless curiosity, all against the backdrop of a nation rebuilding. From the quiet streets of Welford Road in Leicester to the bustling editorial rooms of the Leicester Mercury, and eventually to London's swinging media and music scene, Peter's path led him to Record Retailer, TV Times, Abbey Road Studios, and collaborations with artists like Gary James and Jackie DeShannon. These two volumes from 1952 and 1953 captures where it all began: a rural boy with a journalist's eye, laying the foundations of a remarkable career. Restored and edited by his son, The Life and Happenings of Peter Robert Cresswell is a time capsule of post-war Britain and a portrait of an ambitious young man who evolves from a life as a religious Wyggeston boy to a young worldly journalist with the Leicester Mercury, and beyond.