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Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood by Woodruff, William is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood about?
William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn -- a treat was sheep's head or cow heel soup -- and got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton industry started its terminal decline. Woodruff had to find his childhood fun in the little free time he
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Woodruff, William
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781405520454
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (71 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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