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Full hearts and empty bellies : a 1920s childhood from the Forest of Dean to the streets of London / Winifred Foley.
By: Foley, Winifred.
Publisher: Leicester : Thorpe, Isis, 2020Edition: Large print edition.Description: 300 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781785418778; 1785418777.Subject(s): Foley, Winifred, 1914-2009 -- Childhood and youth | Forest of Dean (England : District) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936Genre/Form: Autobiographies. | Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s - a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship. Living hand to mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - "our Poll" - had a loving family and the woods and streams of a forest "better than heaven" as a playground. But a brother and sister had died in infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours, paraffin and even candles were in short supply, and she never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most terrible of all, like her sister before her, at fourteen little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life of service among London's grey terraces.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Chester Lane Library Large Print | 942.4130831 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38055013139613 |
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Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s - a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship. Living hand to mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - "our Poll" - had a loving family and the woods and streams of a forest "better than heaven" as a playground. But a brother and sister had died in infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours, paraffin and even candles were in short supply, and she never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most terrible of all, like her sister before her, at fourteen little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life of service among London's grey terraces.
Adult.