Winifred Foley: 2 books
Full Hearts and Empty Bellies
A 1920s Childhood from the Forest of Dean to the Streets of London
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at thirty and children died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - 'our Poll' - had a loving...
Shiny Pennies and Grubby Pinafores
How We Overcame Hardship to Raise a Happy Family in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean and the cherished relatives she had left behind. Determined to give their children...