"This book is an excellent read for anyboby interested in social history.
It relays vividly what poverty and hardship a recent generation had to endure, but it also captures the spirit and sense of community of those times."

Quote from Amazon reader

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Somewhere around KEGS - in a classroom, the canteen, the Library... almost anywhere

Found in staff room, read intro and first chapter, looks like an enjoyable read.

Like 'Angela's Ashes' this is a biography mostly set in the 1920's, but in Lancashire rather than Ireland, in the weaving town of Blackburn when the author is a child,the youngest of four, when the cotton based industry collapses.It's hard to believe that such poverty could exist just (for me) one generation ago. Although life wasn't easy for my parents in South Wales and Bedfordshire, the difference in living standards is shocking. I should have read something like this in history at school to have learnt what happened to families in the first World War and the Great Depression, it would have made a much greater impact and given me some understanding of the politics of the time, and perhaps of the present.It isn't a difficult read, and there are plenty of happy memories in the book despite the hardships. And perhaps some insights into the 'British' way of coping.

This book is on its way to Arnside, Cumbria, hopefully to be released in a coffee shop near the Promenade, by my Mum.

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Left on table on last day of excellent Art Exhibition in the hall.

A vivid account of life in early 20th century, very good. I found it at an art exhibition and am now hooked on book crossing, thanks.
left it at morecambe golf club.

I discovered the book in my father's house after he died recently. I found it ironic that the author was visiting Lancashire from Florida. The same thing I have done many times since emigrating with my parents to the USA as a child. A wonderful book which made me realize how difficult life was in the 1920's, something my father had shared with me, but I didn't really fathom. My parents were lucky to have lived in Heysham and Seaton.

This book was sent to me by the previous entry, I was friends with her father who often visited family in Morecambe. His brother in law was a member at Morecambe Golf club.

I have now sent it with my cousin to Lincoln.

It was of interest to me as I grew up in Burnley and my dad propsed to my mum on Whalley Nab.