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| Title | : | The Road to Nab End (Nab End #1) |
| Author | : | William Woodruff |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 407 pages |
| Published | : | January 3rd 2002 by Time Warner Books UK (first published 1993) |
| Categories | : | Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. History. Memoir. European Literature. British Literature |
William Woodruff
Paperback | Pages: 407 pages Rating: 3.97 | 703 Users | 60 Reviews
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William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn - a treat was sheep's head or cow-heel soup - and got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton industry started its terminal decline. Woodruff had to find his childhood fun in the little free time he had available between his delivery job and school, but he never writes self-pityingly, leaving the reader to shed the tears on his behalf.Describe Books In Pursuance Of The Road to Nab End (Nab End #1)
| Original Title: | The Road to Nab End |
| ISBN: | 0349115214 (ISBN13: 9780349115214) |
| Series: | Nab End #1 |
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Loved it! I went to Blackburn & Nab End just to see where this amazing man/writer/human being grew up.Loved it! I went to Blackburn & Nab End just to see where this amazing man/writer/human being grew up.
Book 1 of my reading challenge done. This was a really weird, enjoyable-yet-uncomfortable book to read. All of it happened less than 100 years ago and in my country, yet I've read High Fantasy novels that I had an easier time relating too. I thought I had a pretty solid understanding of British Politics and the origins of the modern Labour movement, and communism in Britain and such, but this has made me think there's more to it than that. In any case, it was a fascinating book to read.
Wonderful read. I recently visited Lancashire for only the third time, and would love to go back and see more. I visited a Toby restaurant in Bolton (see my blog!) which had been converted from the 19th century 'Gentleman's House' of a Master Cotton Bleacher. William Woodruff's book tells how the other half were living some years later. Now very keen to read his history books, and I'll be encouraging my husband, whose family come from the mining community of the Welsh Valleys, to read this book
This autobiography was the October selection for our library reading group. It is the biography of William Woodruff, now an eminent historian, from his birth in 1916 in the Blackburn cotton factory where his mother was working to the point he ran away to London at age 16. It describes his upbringing and his family's struggle to survive during the period that the Lancashire cotton industry went into decline in 1920 through to the Great Depression and beyond. It is a story of considerable hardship
I grew up in Blackburn and unknowingly walked past the end of the street where the bigginig of the book is based every day on my way to and from secondary school. If you live or have ever lived in Blackburn Lancahire read this book. If you have any interest in the cotton industry in the uk read this book.The biography of an ordinary working class boy.
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