Robert Roberts

The Classic Slum (eBook, ePUB)

Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the 'good old days' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 1990
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141932354
• Artikelnr.: 38128727

Autorenporträt

Robert Roberts was an expert on adult literacy. He died in 1979.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Class Structure
2 Possessions
3 Manners and Morals
4 Governors, Pastors and Masters
5 The Common Scene
6 Food, Drink and Physic
7 Alma Mater
8 Culture
9 The Great Release
10 High Days and After
Appendices
1 Conducted Tour
2 Snuffy
3 Bronze Mushrooms
Select Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
The photographs, which have not been published before, were taken around
the early 1900s by a Worsley man, Samuel Coulthurst, who went about Salford
dressed as a rag and bone merchant with his camera concealed on a handcart.
1. Corner shop
2. A muffler–white, if possible, for the Lord's day
3. Some were too poor to buy at the old clothes shops
4. General dealer
5. The clothiers
6. Women of the time I
7. Women of the time II
8. Water for the wheel: a knife and scissors grinder
9. Hawkers at rest
10. 'The short way out of Manchester'
11. A barrel organ called Tuesdays and Saturdays
12. Theatre by the market
13. Boys haggling at the hen market