A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum

by Robert Roberts

With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the railways lines and canal banks, their lives were rich in experience and comradeship.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1901341011
• ISBN13: 9781901341010
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable and well-written

Personal account by Robert Roberts (a son of a shopkeeper within a large family) of his early years, growing up in a run-down area in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, covering the period from 1905 to about 1921. Interesting, informative, well-written, entertaining; an enjoyable read. Worth reading. 9 out of 10