Born in 1948, 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.
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Free Boots & Back to Backs - Memories of a 1950's Childhood
Memories of a 1950's Childhood
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eBook - ePub
Free Boots & Back to Backs - Memories of a 1950's Childhood
Memories of a 1950's Childhood
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Dead-End Kids, Community and Our Very Own Resident Midwife and Doctor
- 2: Mom and Dad’s Wedding Photo, Relatives and Family Ghosts
- 3: My Siblings and an Unconventional Wartime Birth
- 4: Clip Round the Ear ’Oles and School Discipline
- 5: The Club and Rent Man, Meddling Nuns and Dodging the School Board Man
- 6: Down the Coal ’Ole, Queuing for Coal and a Fancy New Tiled Grate
- 7: Coronation Day, Our Brand-New Telly and Grabbing a Tanner for the Meter
- 8: Green Lane Bath House and Library
- 9: Friday Night is Bath Night
- 10: Rescuing Dad’s Suit from the Pawn Shop, Visiting the Moneylender and Witnessing Chicken Slaughter
- 11: Painting My Room Pink and Making the Most of Cardboard
- 12: Wash Day in the Brewus
- 13: Bombsites and Collecting Fuel for Bonfire Night
- 14: Freezing Cold Winters, Fog and Smog and Joey Ellis’s Magic Wand
- 15: Polio and a Convalescence Trip to Devon
- 16: Christmas and Sixpence Scams
- 17: The Bull Ring Market, Barrow Boys and the City of a Thousand Trades
- 18: Mom’s Stockings Save the Day on Our Family Holiday to Weston-super-Mare
- 19: Touting for Business at The Blues, Getting Caught Scrumping and Teenage Heartthrob Tommy Steele
- 20: Leaving Childhood Behind and Moving to Sheldon
- 21: Earning My Own Wage as a Hairdresser and Meeting My Husband Ray
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
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