Parish Pump (CGA series)

Parish Pump was a series of articles that ran between January 1971 and September 1975 in The Country Gentleman's Association monthly magazine.

Written by Julian Grey, the articles detailed life in a fictional East Anglian village between the 1930s and the 1970s.

(Jan 72)Grey is a writer and a townie, and as such is initially viewed with much suspicion by the mainly agrarian natives when he arrives in 1937.

The centre of the drama is unnamed, but referred to as the community around the Parish Pump.

A parish council still exists[3] Within the village Unnamed characters These include The series ran from bi-monthly in 1971 and 72; then again in 1974 and 75; in 1973 a shorter, but monthly, article, appeared.