This is my autobiography

http://theredsword.com

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2008/12/02/berry_burgess_feature.shtml

It is the autobiographical story of the my childhood summer of 1969 growing up in North Shields in the North East of England, i The book documents life in North Shields during the late at the turn of the 70’s viewed through the eyes of an innocent 11 year old in the turbulent, racist and changing times of small fishing town. The story features many local areas and characters from the town’s historic past such as Pallisters the infamous second hand store on Prudhoe Street, The Tiger Stairs, The Gardeners Arms, The Jungle and Fish Quay. The Red Sword is a collection of tales and events in the last summer of the “Westerners” a group of children and friends who went to Western Board School in the sixties and who lived between Rudyerd Street and Sibthorpe Street.
I started the book over 20 years ago as simple personal meanderings and thoughts in a diary and over the years expanded into this final version. As the owner of local advertising and design agency Armadillo Creative on the North Shields Fish Quay, I deciding against the obvious publishing route the book and financial gain, instead I utilised the agencies web design experience and created it as a free online book. It featured in a local BBC interview and since it's launch on Tuesday I have had nearly 1000 unique vistors to the site to read the book.