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The House Trap
Barbara’s parents Harriet and Alec Ferguson arrived at Tearo House in Stockdale with their three small children in 1937, expecting to return to their home in the South within the year. Alec was an Engineering Draughtsman of some note and had been sent by his London office to a branch in the North East. However, fate struck, the Second World War broke out, and Barbara’s father made the decision that found the family entrapped, either by love or hate, in Tearo House for years to come.
In this forthright and frank account we follow the lives of Barbara’s parents and siblings, the birth of her own children and the events surrounding her disastrous marriage. It is a true and moving story following the lives of one ordinary family living within one house from 1937 through to the present time, and the complete renovation of the house by Barbara’s daughter Lucy.
ISBN: 9781852001995
Size: 217x140mm
Binding: hardback
Length: 216pp aprox
About the author:
Barbara Thomason
Barbara passed her school certificate in 1949 and became an artist with a small printing company. Following the upbringing of her family, she went on to hold a number of jobs involving her artistic abilities. She became the supervisor in the British Steel Reprographic Department, the Manager of the Art Room with Middlesborough Borough Council, the buyer and supervisor in Goldstein’s Art Shop, and manageress of a small art shop in Kendal.
Her life-long passion has been her painting and she has sold and exhibited her paintings extensively in the Lake District and North Yorkshire. She has also exhibited and been a prize winner with the British Water Colour Society.
In later years Barbara’s eyesight has started to fail, and through frustration at losing the creative outlet of her painting the idea of writing this book came to her.
