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  • Pie 'n' Mash and Prefabs - My 1950s Childhood

    par Norman Jacobs ...
    The Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect prefabs on fields and open spaces to give temporary accommodation to those who had been bombed out. It was in one of these 'modern' boxes that young Norman Jacobs grew up through the 1950s and 1960s. In a lively, detailed and humorous picture of a postwar Hackney childhood, Norman takes us back to an age ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Cracked Eggs and Chicken Soup - A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars

    A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars

    par Norman Jacobs ...
    In this revealing memoir of childhood, the author shows not only what affected his family, but also reveals a large slice of social history concerning the lives of all ordinary working-class people struggling to live in the slums of the East End of London in those pre-Welfare State days. He writes with sympathy, and sometimes anger, of the overcrowded houses with families of anything up to eight ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Mass Media in Modern Society

    par Norman Jacobs ...
    In this lively and yet scholarly book, creative artists, people who direct channels of communications, and social scientists present their numerous positions and deeply felt disagreements. ... En savoir plus

    $59.08 CAD

  • Crystal Palace Speedway

    A History of the Glaziers

    par Norman Jacobs ...
    On 19 May 1928, just three months after the sport had been launched in this country at the pioneering High Beech meeting, Fred Mockford and Cecil Smith introduced speedway racing to Crystal Palace with the first international match between England and Australia, the forerunner of the Test matches. It was an immediate success with the public who flocked in their tens of thousands to witness these ... En savoir plus

    $7.36 CAD

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  • A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile

    Love, Hardship and Laughter in a South East London Fish-and-Chip Shop

    par Hilda Kemp, Cathryn Kemp ...
    'A brilliant memoir of a strong woman' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'A must-read that will break your heart but also make you laugh' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'Oi, Hilda, the sign outside says you're frying today but I ain't seeing nothing done in ere!' The voice cut through my daydream. Already there was a queue of hungry customers on the cobbled street of London's East End.In 1950s and 60s ... En savoir plus

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  • The View From the Corner Shop

    The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime

    par Kathleen Hey ...
    A lively diary chronicling the ups and downs of running a grocery shop in a Yorkshire town during the rationing years of the Second World WarKathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who ... En savoir plus

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  • 'We Ain't Got No Drink, Pa'

    A Little Girl's Struggle to Survive in the Slums of 1920s South East London

    par Hilda Kemp, Cathryn Kemp ...
    'We ain't got no drink, Pa.'I trembled as I spoke. Then somewhere inside me I found the anger, the courage to answer him back.'We don't have no grog cos you drank it all!'I knew he was going for me tonight, so I reckoned I might as well go down fighting after all.Growing up in the slums of 1920s and 30s Bermondsey, Hilda Kemp's childhood was one of chaos and fear. Every day was battleground, a ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Jam Butties and a Pan of Scouse

    par Maggie Clarke, Cathryn Kemp ...
    Get cosy in front of the fire with this moving, heartwarming and inspiring true story. The perfect Christmas read!*****JAM BUTTIES AND A PAN OF SCOUSE is a gritty yet heart-warming memoir set against the backdrop of Liverpool's tightknit working-class docklands community. The story covers Maggie Clarke's upbringing in the tenements close to the docks, the River Mersey and the Leeds and Liverpool ... En savoir plus

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  • No Cake, No Jam

    Hardship and happiness in wartime London

    par Marian Hughes ...
    No Cake, No Jam is the heart-warming true story of a little girl’s London childhood during the Blitz, and of how she rose above adversity through sheer guts and strength of character.Marian Hughes was born in the same year as her father committed suicide. She spent most of her early childhood with her elder sisters and brother in Spurgeon’s Orphanage in South London. There she learned to love ... En savoir plus

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  • Over a Hot Stove

    Life below stairs in Britain's great houses: the charming memoirs of a 1930s kitchen maid

    par Flo Wadlow ...
    This delightful memoir provides a unique 'Upstairs, Downstairs'account of what life was really like in a bygone era.At the age of sixteen, Flo Wadlow left her family to begin what would become a distinguished life 'in service'. Starting as a kitchen maid in London, she soon rose through the ranks and worked at many of England's great houses including Woodhall in Hilgay where she met scullery maid ... En savoir plus

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  • Cocoa at Midnight

    The Housekeeper's Tale - the remarkable true story of life below stairs from Princess Diana's family housekeeper

    par Tom Quinn ...
    Collections series True Stories of Life Below Stairs
    The must-read memoir from Kathleen Clifford, an English housekeeper who worked in the Spencer family home in the interwar years. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs'My favourite gossips were William and Jimmy. I only got the chance to talk to them now and then as I spent most of my time hurtling round the kitchen trying not to upset the cook who was my immediate and ... En savoir plus

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  • A Spoonful of Sugar

    par Brenda Ashford ...
    'They say you can never truly love a child that is not your own, but that goes against every instinct that runs through me. For I have loved children born to other women all my life and every child that I have ever cared for, I've adored with all my heart. Many I would have laid down my life for, in fact on some memorable occasions when I fled to air raid shelters clutching my charges to my chest, ... En savoir plus

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