Free Boots and Back-to-Backs: Memories of a 1950s Childhood

Born in 1946, 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'.

The perfect book for readers of nostalgic historical non-fiction, about life in Britain as the country emerged from the grim years of the Second World War.

Title - Free Boots and Back-to-Backs: Memories of a 1950s Childhood

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Author - Maureen Harvey

ISBN 13 - 9781786068675

Imprint - John Blake Publishing Ltd

Publisher - John Blake Publishing Ltd

Date Published - 08/03/2018

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 160 x 240 x 45mm

Weight - 700 g

Languages - English