Book
I've just finished reading a fascinating book. It's called Kate's Story by Billy Hopkins and tells the true story (as related by Kate) of her life from the turn of the century to around 1928. It covers her days as a child in a poor area of Manchester, the workhouse, time at an Industrial School, factory work, WW1 and the poverty afterwards. Not only was it a good story (one of those books you can't put down) but it was full of information on how life was lived all those years ago,
It's well worth a read. I got it from a charity shop (where else?......lol)
publisher Headline Publishing.
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