Sid chaplin. “The last day of the Sardine” Qodirova Iroda Fl 5-20 Information about sid chaplin. - Sid Chaplin OBE (20 September 1916 – 11 January 1986) was an English writer whose works (novels, television screenplays, poetry and short stories) are mostly set in the north-east of England, in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Chaplin was born into a Durham mining family and worked in the pits as a teenager.. Between 1941 and 1953, he resided at Ferryhill, County Durham and worked as a miner at Dean and Chapter Colliery at Dean Bank. In 1946, he won the Atlantic Award for Literature for his collection of short stories, The Leaping Lad. After another stint as a miner, Chaplin began writing full-time for the National Coal Board magazine, Coal, from 1950. He later wrote for The Guardian, including theatre reviews, essays of social observation and, from 1963, his own column Northern Accent.
Chaplin’s literary career pre-dated the so-called angry young men genre and has been credited as an influence on the late 1950s/early 1960s “kitchen sink” social realism of writers such as Alan Sillitoe and Stan Barstow.[citation needed] His novels The Day of the Sardine (1961) and The Watchers and the Watched (1962) have been cited as classics of “working class existentialism” and were reprinted by Flambard Press in 2004. - In 1968, playwright Alan Plater based his play and musical production Close The Coalhouse Door on Chaplin’s early writings, set to songs by Alex Glasgow. The musical was revived in 2012. In 1976, Chaplin contributed to the writing of the TV series When The Boat Comes In. The following year he was awarded an OBE for services to the arts in the North East.
Chaplin died in 1986. A posthumous anthology In Blackberry Time was published the following year. In 1997, the Chaplin family deposited the bulk of Sid Chaplin’s papers at Newcastle University’s Robinson Library, Special Collections. - His son is Michael Chaplin.
His works Novels Edit My Fate Cries Out (1949, 1973) The Thin Seam (1949, 1968) The Big Room (1960) The Day of the Sardine (1961, 2004) The Watchers and the Watched (1962, 2004) Sam in the Morning (1965) - The Mines of Alabaster (1971)
Short stories Edit The Leaping Lad (1946, 1970) On Christmas Day in the Morning (1978) The Bachelor Uncle and Other Stories (1980) Misc Edit The Smell of Sunday Dinner (1971) [essays] A Tree With Rosy Apples (1972) [essays] - In Blackberry Time (1987) [anthology]
The last day of the sardine - The Day of The Sardine is a novel by the British writer Sid Chaplin. First published in 1961, it is set in a working-class community in Newcastle upon Tyne at the very beginning of the 1960s.
Plot - The principal character of the novel is Arthur Haggerston, an intelligent but rebellious teenager who lives with his mother, Peg, and her lover, Harry Parker, a former seaman who works in a sardine-canning factory. Arthur leaves school without qualifications and takes up various menial jobs before using the influence of his Uncle George to obtain work installing sewage pipes for the local council. He conducts an affair with Stella, a married woman with a seafaring husband, and develops a friendship with another teenager, Nosey (or Stanley) Carron.
- After several altercations with a gang led by Mick Kelly, Arthur and Nosey form their own gang, while Nosey begins a relationship with Kelly’s sister, Teresa. The violence between the two gangs escalates, which makes Arthur uneasy. After a fight between the gangs, Arthur is pursued by the police and hides in a church hall where a service is being conducted. He makes the acquaintance of the Pastor, Mr Johnson, and of Johnson’s daughter, Dorothy. In a spirit of reconciliation, Arthur attends an open-air brass band concert with Harry and Peg, but Peg spots Arthur’s estranged father playing with a military band. Arthur ‘s father is confronted, and confesses to bigamy, but agrees to a divorce, even if it means that he will face prison.
- Nosey claims that Kelly has beaten Teresa, and persuades Arthur to help him exact revenge. In the ensuing fight, Arthur severely injures Kelly, and later hears that Kelly’s father has alerted the police. Afterwards, Nosey and Arthur decide to spy on Nosey’s brother Crab, who has been conducting an affair with Mildred, the daughter of Charlie Nettlefold, a local scrap-dealer. They witness Crab leaving the scrapyard, and discover that Crab has shot the couple.
- After rumours of Arthur’s involvement in Kelly’s beating spread, he is fired from his job, after which he traps the foreman, Sproggett, and Uncle George in a large pipe, forcing them to dig their way out. Believing that the police will be searching for him in connection with the shooting, Arthur flees, and sends a night sleeping rough in the countryside. He returns to Newcastle and visits Stella, who tells him that she will be moving with her husband to another part of the country. He returns home, to find that Kelly’s father did not contact the police, and that Crab Carron has been arrested for the shooting, in which Mildred died but Charlie survived to testify against Crab.
- Distraught by Crab’s arrest, Nosey tells Arthur that he seduced Dorothy after telling her about Arthur’s relationship with Stella. Some time after Crab’s execution, Arthur discovers that Nosey has converted to Christianity and has begun preaching for Pastor Johnson’s church. Arthur accepts Harry’s marriage to Peg, and accepts a job at the sardine-canning factory.
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