The Road to Nab End

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The Road to Nab End

Author : William Woodruff

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Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

384

Pages

9780349115214

ISBN-13

0349115214

ISBN-10

Little, Brown & Company

Publisher

198 mm

Height

129 mm

Width

28 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

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 1920s Blackburn - a treat was sheeps head or cow-heel soup - and got worse when his father lost his jo 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 1920s Blackburn - a treat was sheeps 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.