Tony Quarrington

About: Tony Quarrington

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https://tonyquarrington.wordpress.com

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Born 1952 in Rochester, Kent. Studied English and European Literature at Essex University and MA in Anglo-Irish Literature at Leeds University. After thirty year career in UK Civil Service, took early retirement in 2009. Co-author of "A Half- Forgotten Triumph" in August 2013, nominated for MCC and ACS Book of the Year Awards. Currently writing book on Folkestone, with book on San Francisco to follow. Planning walking tours of Folkestone summer 2017.

Posts by Tony Quarrington:

• Sep 16, 2019 Today I Read That You Had Died

• Sep 1, 2019 I Know I Must Accept that You are Gone

• Aug 21, 2019 Waiting for the Tide (A Gull’s Life)

• Aug 19, 2019 The Four Umbrella Sketch (with thanks/apologies to Monty Python)

• Aug 8, 2019 When the Day Trippers Leave

• Jun 28, 2019 Mermaid Beach at Dusk (poem)

• May 27, 2019 Beach Cricket

• May 24, 2019 Folkestone’s Golden Summers: III 1963 – The Poet as a Small Boy Visits the Town (with apologies to Philip Larkin)

• May 24, 2019 Folkestone’s Golden Summers: II – 1903 The Grand Gentlemen’s Mansions Opens

• May 24, 2019 Folkestone’s Golden Summers: I -1843 The Water Witch Sets Sail

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