From the Bridlington Free Press 31st July 2008

"Two Flamborough women are slowly getting used to being minor celebrities. Their book “The Right Side of the Dyke”, a unique collection of spoken memories of village life between 1900 and the Second World War, has just been published and already villagers have been clamouring to get a copy. It is not surprising as somewhere in its 358 pages there is sure to be something about them, their relatives or where they live. As a result, Margaret Smith, 80, and Rita Sellars, 79, have found themselves unexpectedly in the spotlight. “People have asked us to sign copies of the book and we intend doing that at village events."

"Its title was Rita’s idea. It is how villagers used to, and some still do, describe where they live in relation to Danes Dyke which separates it from the “outside”. The less privileged were said to live “ on the wrong side of the Dyke” and any troublemakers or those who did not fit in would be told it was “It’s time you were on the wrong side of the Dyke”.

"They spent 14 years tape recording recollections of 22 of Flamborough’s oldest residents, several of whom have since died. Without their intervention their memories would have died with them. Two suitcases full of dozens of their recorded interviews have been snapped up by East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Treasure House archive in Beverley. They are now available for research on CD."

From "offmytrolly" a book review blog site

"If anything was ever a labour of love then this book is it: transcribed from original taped conversations with residents of Flamborough, it was fifteen years in the making. I first went to Flamborough in 1976 and have been a regular visitor ever since, but this book shows a different Flamborough from the one I see today: a close and thriving fishing community where life was hard but folks still knew how to have fun."

Readers have commented:

“The book is brilliant, when people complain about what the kids get up to today, I’ll tell them to read this book!!”

“I enjoyed the book as I remember many of the people and it brought back happy memories, and I had a good laugh reading it.”

Mrs M.H. Flamborough

A reader from Nottinghamshire wrote:

"I could not put it down once I started to read it, as it brought back so many happy memories of my childhood. I could picture so many of the later characters who were old men and women when I was young. Congratulations on a wonderful project."