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The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood
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The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood Paperback - 2001

by William Woodruff

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A bestseller in England and celebrated as one of the great memoirs in many years, The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London at the age of sixteen, he lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community in the north of England. But after Lancashire's supremacy in cotton textiles ended with the crash of 1920, his father was thrown out of work. From then on, Billy and his family faced a life blighted by extreme poverty. For the ordinary families of Lancashire, unemployment was an ever-present fear: "If you worked you ate. If there was no work you went hungry." Billy's boyhood was not all misery. Working-class pride and culture made for tight family and neighborhood bonds and added savor to the smallest pleasures in life. Mr. Woodruff writes with an understated lyricism and an eye for telling details that effortlessly pulls us into another time and place.

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  • Title The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood
  • Author William Woodruff
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 374
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Amsterdam Books, Chicago
  • Publication date September 25, 2001
  • ISBN 9781561310692 / 1561310697
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.28 x 1.11 in (21.34 x 13.41 x 2.82 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Lancashire (England), Novelists, English - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001028948
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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William Woodruff was born in 1916 into a family of Lancashire cotton workers. Leaving school at 13, he became a delivery boy in a grocer's shop. In 1933, with bleak prospects in the north of England, he decided to try his luck in London. In 1936, with the aid of a London County Council Scholarship he went to Oxford University. During the Second World War he fought with the British Army in North Africa and the Mediterranean region. In 1946 Woodruff renewed his academic career. He is a world historian whose work has been widely translated. Woodruff has seven children and lives in Florida.

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