In 1931 he first found the Whiteway Colony, two miles from Slad, a colony founded by Leo Tolstoyan Anarchists.
He left the Central School at fifteen to become an errand boy at a Chartered Accountants in Stroud.
In his notebook for 1928, when he was fourteen he listed 'Concert and Dance Appointments', for at this time he was in demand to play his violin at dances. At twelve, Laurie went to the Central Boys' School in Stroud. Lee and his brothers grew up loving their mother's family, the Lights, and intensely disliking the Lee side. After fighting in the First World War with the Royal West Kent regiment, Lee's father Reg did not return to the family. Having been born in Stroud, Lee moved with his family to the village of Slad in 1917, the move with which Cider with Rosie opens. The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1935, and the third with his return to Spain in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigades.
The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – ) was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter, raised in the village of Slad, and went to Marling School, Gloucestershire.
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