The road from Blackpool Piers 198-

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The road from Blackpool Piers 198-

Original autograph manuscript of Fuller's article The Road from Blackpool Piers with numerous additions, alterations and deletions throughout in the author's hand. The article discusses music at length and is based on the script for a broadcast performance of gramaphone records. The manuscript is written on the verso of page proofs of some of Fuller's poems.

6 l. 30 cm.

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Fuller, Roy, 1912-1991

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Roy (Broadbent) Fuller (1912-1991), the poet, was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, educated at Blackpool High School, and later qualified as a solicitor. He joined the Woolwich Equitable Building Society in 1938 and became one of its directors in 1969. He was legal adviser to and vice-president of the Building Societies Association, and at one time a governor of the BBC. His lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry (1968-1973) were published under the titles Owls and artificers (London, 1971) and P...