Arthur Randell

Arthur Redvers Randell (11 July 1901 – March 1988) wrote about life in the English Fens.

Biography

Randell was born near the River Great Ouse at Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen, Norfolk, in the United Kingdom. During his early life he made a living from being a railway worker and a molecatcher. He was a great authority on the Fens and its people and customs. He wrote about the blacksmith who was forced to turn to repairing farm implements and kitchen implements, the chimney sweep, the harness maker, the pig-killer, the straw worker, the maker of corn dollies and many other now extinct trades

Bibliography

  • Sixty years a Fenman
  • Fenland Railwayman
  • Fenland Memories[1]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Detail taken from a copy of Fenland Memories published by Routledge and Kegan Paul (London) in 1969, and edited by Enid Porter of the Cambridge Folk Museum
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