A Lancashire Past

A Family Love Story

Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book A Lancashire Past by J.W. Foulds, AuthorHouse UK
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: J.W. Foulds ISBN: 9781481783668
Publisher: AuthorHouse UK Publication: March 5, 2013
Imprint: AuthorHouse UK Language: English
Author: J.W. Foulds
ISBN: 9781481783668
Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
Publication: March 5, 2013
Imprint: AuthorHouse UK
Language: English

This book concerns a vanished world. From 1926 birth, the year of the General Strike in the UK, the life of, and significant influences on, a working-class boy. Industrial Lancashire location bordering the Yorkshire Dales. Family struggles in the cotton industry and a World War I diversion. Active participation in Trade Unionism and local Labour party by Father and Grandfather. Father, ex officio. Three siblings, all soon initiated into the connection between work and money, coupled with the necessity for food production from hens, allotments and the countryside. Parental marriage breakdown. Rescue by loving, extraordinary grandparents. Overcrowding and a nomadic lifestyle. Father, increasingly politically active. Secretary of local branch of Communist party. Author, soon a trusted messenger. Surreptitiously collecting correspondence officially considered seditious and earlier feared intercepted by 1930s Special Branch. Family habitually and totally committed to the open air and associated rural pursuits. Rambling, cycling YHA. And at a time long before total motorised domination and ecological concerns. Blessed with an above-average brain, selected at ten years for grammar school education, in a pioneering wave of local working-class children thus privileged. An educational system and atmosphere unprepared for and unwelcoming to the children of artisans.Enthusiastic sporting commitment, mirroring the wider family involvement. A stubborn adolescent, determined to resist family wishes and pressure to follow higher education, joining the war-time labour force aged sixteen.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This book concerns a vanished world. From 1926 birth, the year of the General Strike in the UK, the life of, and significant influences on, a working-class boy. Industrial Lancashire location bordering the Yorkshire Dales. Family struggles in the cotton industry and a World War I diversion. Active participation in Trade Unionism and local Labour party by Father and Grandfather. Father, ex officio. Three siblings, all soon initiated into the connection between work and money, coupled with the necessity for food production from hens, allotments and the countryside. Parental marriage breakdown. Rescue by loving, extraordinary grandparents. Overcrowding and a nomadic lifestyle. Father, increasingly politically active. Secretary of local branch of Communist party. Author, soon a trusted messenger. Surreptitiously collecting correspondence officially considered seditious and earlier feared intercepted by 1930s Special Branch. Family habitually and totally committed to the open air and associated rural pursuits. Rambling, cycling YHA. And at a time long before total motorised domination and ecological concerns. Blessed with an above-average brain, selected at ten years for grammar school education, in a pioneering wave of local working-class children thus privileged. An educational system and atmosphere unprepared for and unwelcoming to the children of artisans.Enthusiastic sporting commitment, mirroring the wider family involvement. A stubborn adolescent, determined to resist family wishes and pressure to follow higher education, joining the war-time labour force aged sixteen.

More books from AuthorHouse UK

Cover of the book The Unspoken by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book Effects and Implications of Pragmatic Competence for Enhancing Efl University Students Written Performance by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book Peanut by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book Beliefs of a Reasoning Mind by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book Referral Harvester by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book Basic Managerial Concepts by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book The Improbable Adventures of Millie by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book The Dust Must Settle by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book The Mystery Mission of Salvation in Christ Jesus by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book Saving Scarlett by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book The Four Most Effective Drugless Methods of Deliverance from Insomnia and Universal Method of Drugless Treatment for Depression, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Other Neurological Diseases and Hypertension by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book Heaven Promises No Favours by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book T. S. Eliot: Critical Essays by J.W. Foulds
Cover of the book The Alpha Yeti by J.W. Foulds
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy