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1786068672

Book Free boots & back-to-backs: memories of a 1950s childhood; Maureen Harvey with Charlotte Browne

Author: Harvey, Maureen

Author: Browne, Charlotte

Year: 2018

Language: English

Type: Book

Class Number: 942.496*

Publisher: John Blake, 2018

Physical or Electronic: Physical

ISBN: 9781786068675

Notes:

Born in 1948, Maureen Harvey was brought up in a poor working-class household in Birmingham at a time when the city was still a major manufacturing centre. Despite her family's poor circumstances, the author recalls a childhood filled with family pride and neighbourliness; of making do with whatever came to hand; of being thankful for small mercies. This was an age where the deserving poor could write to the Daily Mail and receive a pair of serviceable boots free of charge; when as a small child Maureen would forage for coal and wood for fuel. The industrial working classes really were 'poor, but proud and honest'.

Extent: xiv, 274 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (bla