Reviews for Lost Railways of Hampshire

The average rating for Lost Railways of Hampshire based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-01-27 00:00:00 James Andrews A bittersweet selection of articles written by Rogers about his home village in Northamptonshire.  I enjoyed his style of writing - just on the right side of curmudgeonly, honest and with a wry humour. He doesn't glamorise the rural life and often mourns the past - even though he knows that in many ways the old style of doing things was not good, unless you were the Squire of course. However, despite the articles only being written in the 1980s and 1990s the book felt incredibly dated. I guess he is writing before the internet really started to affect people's lives, working or otherwise. An example is that Rogers bemoans the fact that he is practically the only working man in the village during the week as all the other men have left for the nearest towns in their 'executive cars'. Nowadays no doubt many would be working from home. You could easily end up feeling a bit nostalgic for both the past that Rogers talks about AND the village he describes in the 80s and 90s as both have gone!

Review # 2 was written on 2018-09-26 00:00:00 Cynthia Guerruccio One of the best books I read in 2011. So good I blogged about it -