Geoff Scarr : Can Make Anything but Money

Geoffrey Ewart Scarr was born in 1918, just as the guns quieted and the people of Hull were coming to terms with the loss of a large part of a generation of young men. Geoff was the second son of Henry Favel Scarr, And Daisy Runnacles. Henry Favel in his turn was the youngest son of Henry Scarr the shipbuilder who built iron ships on Hessle Haven during the last years of the 1800s and early part of the last century. This book is his memoirs written piecemeal at several stages of his life. (Geoff died in 1996) A life of passionate interest in boats, planes and automobiles and Engineering and 'bodging'. Of the trials of never having quite enough money, and of his love of the characters and history that made up his childhood and life in Hull and the East Riding. (Includes a period when Geoff moved to Gateshead) This book will be of interest to anyone who lives in Hull and is interested in social history, to anyone with an engineering bent and especially to people who love veteran and vintage cars and old aeroplanes.