The road to Nab End
Subtitle: a Lancashire childhood
By: William Woodruff
Edition: Large print [ed.].
Series: Isis reminiscence series; Isis reminiscence series
Publisher: Isis Large Print
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780753198063; 9780753198070
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Childhood and youth; Large type books; English Novelists; Biography; Historians; Social life and customs; Homes; Manners and customs
Work titles: Billy Boy
Description: William Woodruff was only just a teenager when the Great Depression began. 'In The Road To Nab End', he describes the utter hardship of living in Lancashire when no work was available and no work meant literally no food.
Notes: Originally published under the title: Billy Boy, by Ryburn Pub. Ltd., 1993.