Martyn Johnson - What's Tha Up To This Time?
Martyn Johnson's latest book, What's Tha Up To This Time? continues his wonderful stories about policing during the 1960s and 1970s. It is the follow up to the best-selling books What's Tha Up to? and What's Tha Up to Nah?. Written from the heart, the book has genuine feeling for the people, animals, places and history of Sheffield.
From suspicious scrapyards and second-hand shops, shoplifters, burglars and pickpockets, Martyn takes you on a journey through an almost lost world of crime and local characters. Meet George and Albert Bloggs, Mr Cellarman, Twirls the key man, Mr Handcuff-man and the most glamorous of all, 'Diana Dors'.
Martyn Johnson was born at Darfield, near Barnsley, the son of a coal miner. Leaving school at the age of fifteen, his first job was as a blacksmith. His work changed dramatically four years later when he joined the Sheffield City Police Force where he served as a ‘beat bobby’ at Attercliffe until 1969. A two-year spell in CID followed but, missing grassroots policing, he returned to the beat for a further seven years. Martyn is passionate about local history.
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