Two Percent Townsend - a portrait of rural life in the Birdlip and Crickley Hill area of the Cotswolds in the 1940s, 50s an

Birdlip, Cold Slad, Crickey Hill and the Air Balloon Inn: John Townsend's humble childhood is full of hardships and adventures in the rough Cotswold hills. His later career is in antiques. Warm and full of character, this is an invaluable picture of life in rural Gloucestershire in the 1940s, 1950s and beyond