Two chapters from a 250-page autobiography called 'This Is My Life', which AHC wrote in 1960.
The chapters, entitled 'My Life at Hove' and 'I Go into Print', cover the period from 1896 to 1899 when AHC's family left Hove (when he was 16 years old). The extracts cover his first entry into the printing trade and his experiences in the town.
Arthur Collins was born in Larcom Road, Walworth, London and moved to Hove with his family at around the age of 13 in 1896. He remained in Hove for 3 years during which time he left school and entered the printing trade.
He went on a trip to Australia in around 1910 and on his return to the UK, he became a Master Printer and owner of a printing firms in Clapton, London and subsequently Billericay, Essex. He was a keen and talented amateur thespian.
54 typed pages and two scans of photos
The typed original of the autobiography 'This is My Life', which was typed by AHC's son, is in the care of his daughter, Joyce Collins.
The Liddell Collection in Leeds took a copy of the full autobiography because of the material in the book that relates to the First World War.
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