A HUTTON Cranswick man has donated more than £1,700 from the sale of his book to a Driffield school and an African church.
Memories of Cranswick has been written by 88-year-old Ron Hyde who has put together his memories of life in the village to raise funds for Kings Mill School, Driffield, and a Methodist church in Mombasa.
Mr Hyde, Hutton Cranswick's oldest man, sa
id copies had been selling well with requests coming in from former villagers now living in Wales and Scotland.
He said there were only a handful left.
"The publisher in Beverley said it was an excellent history of the times. It has all been written from memory.
"I can remember things that happened 80 years ago, it's what I am having for breakfast that I have a problem remembering," said Mr Hyde.
Mr Hyde published his first book, a history of the Central Methodist Church in Cranswick in 1964 which was published as a centenary souvenir costing just two pence with all proceeds going to the Sunday School building fund.
More than 40 years later, Mr Hyde has published his second book which took him two years to research while he relied on a friend in the village to do the typing.
"When you get to be an old man your mind goes a bit faster than your pen," Mr Hyde said.
Mr Hyde has donated £1,160 from the sale of the book to Driffield's Kings Mill School while £600 has been sent to Mombasa.
Mr Hyde is already working on his next book, entitled More Memories of Cranswick, after requests from villagers to focus on Hutton. This is expected to be available from August.
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