The Cherrys by Will Scott

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My memory is appalling... I know the copy of my mum's is Cherrys to the Rescue but I can't for the life of me remember which one I bought recently. It might have been Pringles but I'm not sure :oops:
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Maybe I should have held onto my Cherry's book and put it up for sale now. I may have got a couple of hundered for it!! :roll:

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What did you do with your Cherrys book, Julie?
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I'll stick with the Pringles....
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Eddie Muir wrote:What did you do with your Cherrys book, Julie?
I sold it last year on EBAY Eddie. Now I'm thinking I should have kept hold of it and sold it now for a few hundred!! :|

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That's a shame, Julie. :cry: I hope you managed to get a good price for it.
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I looked at my other Cherrys book last night and it's a first edition of The Cherrys' Famous Case. I struggled to remember that, though, just 12 hours later :?
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Ah, yes, #11 'The Cherrys Famous Case'.

One of only 2 Cherrys books not set in either in Market Cray & its environs, or at St. Denis Bay.

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Fiona1986 wrote:I looked at my other Cherrys book last night and it's a first edition of The Cherrys' Famous Case.
What did you think of it?

Here is a book that is going for a very fair starting price. It will be interesting to see how much the winning bid is. (I’m not bidding).

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If it doesn't go too high I may bid, though I'm feeling a bit sore after losing out on The Magic Faraway Tree yesterday after some frenzied last minute bidding.

I really didn't look at Famous Case that closely, I just checked the title and edition and had a quick look a the map. I always like it when the are maps in books.

I need to read bth my Cherrys books soon though.
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A book about Will Scott, written by his granddaughters, was recently published.
LifeOfWillScott
It’s also on ebay and amazon.

I’d like to get hold of one of his detective novels, but they seem to be extinct.
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And I've got one only of Will Scott's detective novels, Lenoir. ('Appy birthday, by the way.)

Great that two of Will Scott's descendants have written his biography. If anyone here gets hold of a copy of this book, one hopes that any data relevant to Scott's Cherrys series are posted on this thread..... :D

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May I point out that the book I wrote with my sister, Kay Steventon, is called Will Scott & Herne Bay and is available from Herne Bay Records Society, 45pp, abundantly illustrated, £7.99. This book concentrates on our grandfather's relationship with his adopted town. I have also just published The Life of Will Scott, Author of the Cherry Books, 156pp, illustrated, which is available from Amazon as a paperback for £3.99 and Amazon Kindle for £1.53; this book looks more broadly at WS's life and work. There were many things in Will Scott's life that influenced the Cherry series.
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Great to see you posting here, 'jayann'.

May one hope that you, and perhaps also your sister, will be detailing a number of these influences here?

Since the Cherrys series is not going to die a natural death and fade away, there are a number of uncertainties to be resolved. For example, was St. Denis Bay Mr Scott's simplified and idealized version of Herne Bay only, or did he also include a few elements from other seaside resorts?

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I should say, first of all, that we were thrilled when we saw discussions such as this about the Cherry books. I think that because we grew up with them we took the books, to some extent, for granted - although we always enjoyed reading them and speculated which of us was the inspiration for Pam Cherry (who went in for a lot of bun-eating).
The map of 'St Denis Bay - The Children's Paradise' in The Cherrys by the Sea relates very closely to Herne Bay, even down to particular buildings. The name St Denis Bay is probably an amalgam of Minnis Bay and St Margaret's Bay - both in east Kent. Herne Bay and adjacent Hampton were a huge influence on WS. His study looked out over Hampton Bay and allowed a good view of the spectacular sunsets that are a feature of that part of the Kent coast. It was a wonderful room in which to think up happenings. That being said, Grampa Scott could have thought up a happening in a dark room situated next to a coal yard.
The question of how far St Denis Bay was an idealized version of Herne Bay is a very interesting one and I will have to think about that!
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