Nelson was the youngest of Polly and Albert’s four sons. He was born in Chapel Street Clovelly on 16 August 1908. Nelson’s story features in chapter four of Barefoot on the Cobbles and it would spoil the novel if I were to recount it any further here. So I will leave you with an extract from that chapter.

‘Bertie, with his younger brothers Mark and Nelson, had spent the long, light evenings after school scrabbling for rusty buttons or broken bits of plate and bickering with friends over who had spotted a particular treasure first. As they ranged across the beach, using old branches to make dens above the water’s reach, their unbroken voices mingled with the raucous cries of the gulls and echoed back.’

Barefoot on the Cobbles will be published on 17 November 2018. More information about the novel can be found here. Copies will be available at various events in the weeks following the launch or can be pre-ordered from Blue Poppy Publishing or the author.