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Alan Sutton Publishing Inc, Dover, New Hampshire [Published date: 1993]. Soft cover, 150 pp. Black and white photo reproductions throughout. [from back cover] George Shaw was a Sheffielder for over forty years between 1912 and 1954, a period spanning two world wars and huge social and economic changes in the city and the country as a whole. The author's vivid memories begin in the then new Townhead Street Flats in wartime Sheffield and move on to school years, personal experience of unemployment during the depression, and work in the steelworks. He relates the excitement of the first silent films shown at 'picture palaces' such as Albert Hall in Barkerâ??s Pool and the advent of 'talking pictures'; he also remembers longgone characters of the 1920s such as the muffin man, the watercress woman, and the knifegrinders with their curious machines. He witnessed great changes m Sheffield over the years, including the slum clearance of the 1930s, suburban expansion and mushrooming of new estates. The Second World War brought back the ration books he had remembered as a child: he describes also the blackout and the two great air raids on Sheffield in December 1940. This highly readable personal story is also a commentary on the changing face of Sheffield in general. Those who grew up in such an industrial landscape will find much to identify with in this. GEORGE SHAW has lived and worked in the Sheffield area all his life. Now retired, he is a keen member of Eckington and District Preservation Society.
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Sheffielder: A Life in the City
Seller: Epilonian Books, Manhattan Beach, CA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Alan Sutton Publishing Inc, Dover, New Hampshire [Published date: 1993]. Soft cover, 150 pp. In very good condition. Black and white pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges of covers and Light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Light scuffing to edges of text block. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked with some light corner creasing. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. Black and white photo reproductions throughout. [from back cover] George Shaw was a Sheffielder for over forty years between 1912 and 1954, a period spanning two world wars and huge social and economic changes in the city and the country as a whole. The author's vivid memories begin in the then new Townhead Street Flats in wartime Sheffield and move on to school years, personal experience of unemployment during the depression, and work in the steelworks. He relates the excitement of the first silent films shown at 'picture palaces' such as Albert Hall in Barker?s Pool and the advent of 'talking pictures'; he also remembers longgone characters of the 1920s such as the muffin man, the watercress woman, and the knifegrinders with their curious machines. He witnessed great changes m Sheffield over the years, including the slum clearance of the 1930s, suburban expansion and mushrooming of new estates. The Second World War brought back the ration books he had remembered as a child: he describes also the blackout and the two great air raids on Sheffield in December 1940. This highly readable personal story is also a commentary on the changing face of Sheffield in general. Those who grew up in such an industrial landscape will find much to identify with in this. GEORGE SHAW has lived and worked in the Sheffield area all his life. Now retired, he is a keen member of Eckington and District Preservation Society. Seller Inventory # 20170829005
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very lightly dulled spine. Spine not creased. 220 x 155 mm. 152 pp. Illustrated in b&w with old photographs. Book. Seller Inventory # 73010
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