Description
Alan Sutton Publishing, Published 1993. Paperback, 150 pp.; 22 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white archival photographs of Sheffield throughout.
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In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers reproducing a photograph of the Furnace Hill playground of about 1933. Mild bumping and creasing to cover edges with mild shelf wear overall. Binding tight. Light scuffing to text block edges. Light corner creasing to pages. Otherwise unmarked. Memoir of working-class Sheffield between 1912 and 1954, written by Shaw at eighty, with a foreword by Roy Hattersley. From the Townhead Street Flats through a church school, unemployment in the depression, work at Laycocks and in the steelworks, the slum clearance of the 1930s, the picture palaces, and the two great air raids of December 1940. Illustrated with archival city photographs: First World War recruiting at Bramall Lane, the Town Hall about 1900, Smithfield and School Lane between the wars, furniture salvaged from the streets after the Blitz. Contents: Foreword by Roy Hattersley; First Light; Granny's Story; A Lost Father; Discoveries; Neighbours; A Church School; Vanished Shops; Hard Lives; New Horizons; Final Schooldays; Sheffield Revealed; Seeking Work; Life at Laycocks; Prelude to War; Survival 1939-40; War Years; People and Places; Calamity and Change; A New Beginning; Acknowledgements.