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  • Bombsites and Lollipops - My 1950s East End Childhood

    My 1950s East End Childhood

    par Jack Hyams, Jacky Hyams ...
    World War Two is finally over. Millions all over the country are starting to wonder if peacetime really is much of an improvement on the War. Food shortages, endless queues, power cuts, rationing and freezing winters make it extremely difficult to make ends meet as husbands return from battlefields to families they hardly know. Yet some East Enders are living large...in a bombed out damp and ... En savoir plus

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  • Shoes Were For Sunday

    par Molly Weir ...
    'Poverty is a very exacting teacher and I had been taught well'The post-war urban jungle of the Glasgow tenements was the setting for Molly Weir's childhood. From sharing a pull-out bed in her mother's tiny kitchen to running in terror from the fever van, it was an upbringing that was cemented in hardship. Hunger, cold and sickness was an everyday reality and complaining was not an option.Despite ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sugar Girls - Lilian’s Story

    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    par Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi ...
    This is Lilian’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.‘When Lilian Tull came to Tate & Lyle shortly after ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Sugar Girls - Joan’s Story

    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    par Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi ...
    This is Joan’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls.During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.‘Joan had joined Tate & Lyle expressly for the social ... En savoir plus

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  • Bath Times and Nursery Rhymes

    The memoirs of a nursery nurse in the 1960s

    par Pam Weaver ...
    A heart-warming memoir about life as a nursery nurse and nanny in the 1960s, for fans of Call the Midwife.In 1961, sixteen year-old Pam Weaver began her training as a nursery nurse. Drawn to this profession by her caring nature and a desire to earn her own living, Pam had no idea of the road she was about to start down. At the government-run nursery, she found early mornings, endless floors to ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sugar Girls - Gladys’s Story

    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    par Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi ...
    This is Gladys’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.‘Gladys changed into her new uniform. The dungarees ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sugar Girls – Ethel’s Story

    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    par Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi ...
    During the Blitz, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London. This is Ethel’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls.‘On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram

    A Nurse's Story From the Streets

    par Dot May Dunn ...
    'A wonderful tale of 1950s Britain... a vivid account of a midwife's lot' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'I couldn't put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'Charming, sad, humorous and poignant' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review*****The compelling and heartwarming true story of a young nurse's life and work in 1950s England, from the Sunday Times bestseller.'Three small children pee... ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • Pack Up Your Troubles

    par Pam Weaver ...
    Connie and Eva are best friends but their families are the worst of enemies…During the VE Day celebrations, two women meet completely by chance. As Connie and Eva talk they discover they are from feuding families, the Maxwells and the Dixons. But when they both begin nurses’ training, they can’t deny their natural bond of friendship and become more like sisters.Their lives intertwine as Connie ... En savoir plus

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  • Far from the East End

    The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home

    par Iris Jones Simantel ...
    ** Saga Magazine 'Life Story' competition winner**From the streets of London to the Welsh countryside, evacuee Iris Simantel tells of her desperate search for somewhere to belong in Far From the East End.Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, Iris spent her early years playing in the rubble of bombed buildings in Dagenham by day and cowering in a dusty shelter at night. But the hardships of ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Unmarried Mother

    par Sheila Tofield ...
    Sheila Tofield tells her moving true story about being a single mother in 1950s Britain, in The Unmarried Mother.'A searing, honest testimony' Lesley PearseSheila grew up in Rotherham, the daughter of an uncaring mother who made her believe she was useless, stupid and - most painfully of all - unlovable. As a young woman, her worst childhood fears were confirmed when her fiancé broke off their ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sugar Girls

    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    par Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi ...
    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten.On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle’s refinery on the shining curve of the Thames. Looking up at the giant gates, Ethel felt like she had been preparing ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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