Free Boots & Back-To-Backs: Memories of a 1950's Childhood

by Maureen Harvey and Charlotte Browne

Despite her family's poor circumstances, the author recalls a childhood filled with family pride and neighborliness; of making do with whatever came to hand; of being thankful for small mercies. This was an age where the deserving poor could write to the Daily Mail and receive a pair of serviceable boots free of charge; when as a small child Maureen would forage for coal and wood for fuel. The industrial working classes really were "poor, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786068672
• ISBN13: 9781786068675
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: John Blake
• Length: 288 Pages