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The Road To Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood

The Road To Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood

William Woodruff

William Woodruff, the son of a weaver, 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 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.
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From his birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London, William Woodruff lived in the heart of Blackburn’s weaving community. But after Lancashire’s supremacy in cotton textiles had ended with the crash of 1920, his father was thrown out of work. From then on, including the great depression of the 1930s, Woodruff and his family faced a life blighted by extreme poverty. Reading this book today, it is hard to comprehend that within living memory - and in what was the richest country in the world - so many people couldn’t even afford to buy enough food. For the ordinary families of Lancashire, unemployment was an ever-present fear: "If you worked you ate. If there was no work you went hungry."

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Title - The Road To Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood

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Author - William Woodruff

ISBN 13 - 9780907871675

Imprint - Eland Publishing Ltd

Publisher - Eland Publishing Ltd

Date Published - 30/06/2000

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Binding Type - Paperback

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Languages - English