Lifelong Shildon fan and long-serving former Northern League chairman Mike Amos has written a 92,000 word book – called All Change, sub-titled “The years that rocked the Cradle of the Railways”- about how the town has changed in his fairly long lifetime.
Coinciding with the bicentenary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the richly anecdotal book leads from Mike’s childhood days as a raggy-trousered train spotter and at Timothy Hackworth school to later years following the changes inflicted by the closure of the Wagon Works.
Richly illustrated, the book costs £13. It will be launched at a St John’s church coffee morning – events renowned for superb home baking – on Saturday April 5 between 10am-noon – with a further signing at the Railway Institute between 12-2pm on Sunday April 6. There is – of course – a chapter on the football club, featuring interviews with club chairman David Dent and other stalwarts.
Following the Saturday signing – and an anticipated lunchtime livener in the George Samuel brewery in the former wagon works canteen – Mike expects with club permission gratefully acknowledged, to have copies available at Dean Street, for the match against Whitley Bay
