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George Blake


Born
in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
October 28, 1893

Died
August 29, 1961

Genre
Fiction, Scottish Affairs


George Blake was a Scottish writer notable for his books about Clydeside shipbuilders. He worked as a journalist and in a publishing house before becoming a full-time writer. His novels include Vagabond Papers (1922), The Shipbuilders (1935), David and Joanna (1936) and the semi-autobiographical work Down to the Sea (1937).

In 1924 Blake moved to London, where he was appointed acting Editor of the magazine John o’ London’s Weekly, moving four years later to the Strand magazine which he was unable to restore to its former fortunes. In 1930 became a director of the publisher Faber and Faber. He was involved in running the Porpoise Press, Edinburgh (which published Neil M. Gunn’s Morning Tide in 1931) as a subsidiary of Faber. The Porpoise Pres ...more

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The Shipbuilders
3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1935 — 25 editions
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Barrie and the Kailyard School
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1951 — 5 editions
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The Constant Star
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The Westering Sun
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David and Joanna
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Down to the Sea
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Young Malcolm
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Mountain and Flood
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Drug Etymology: The Origin ...
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The Valiant Heart
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“Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass growing about the sinking keel blocks. And now only the gaunt, dumb poles and groups of men, workless, watching in silence the bitter passage of the vessel.”
― George Blake, The Shipbuilders
tags: 1930s, clydeside, great-depression, shipbuilding, unemployed
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“The lorries thunder through mile upon mile of farmland, indeed, but... it is obviously related to an urban economy... Dereliction is the word... The stigmata of neglect litter the highway {A80] almost all the way from Glasgow to Stirling... let the intelligent traveller consider as he passes through them the nature and provenance of Millerston, Mollinsburn, Cumbernauld and Dennyloanhead. It is impossible to traverse such communities without seeing that something rather horrible once happened to Scotland, something from which it has never recovered.”
― George Blake, The Heart of Scotland
tags: 1934, central-belt, cumbernauld, dennyloanhead, dereliction, industrialisation, millerston, mollinsburn, scotland
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