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Champion road,

Frank Tilsley

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Description:Champion RoadFrank TilsleyThe marriage of an English couple during the turbulent years of two wars. SYNOPSIS: Jonathan Briggs was a self-made man, tough, stubborn, an instinctive fighter. He won his wife Nellie that way. Whether he made a fortune, went off to war, or found comfort in the arms of another woman, he always came home to Nellie. He was kin to every pirate, rode the cotton boom after the first World War, a man who lived hard.“Before telling you about Nellie I should explain about Hesketh’s, and how we came to meet there when we were children, taking out newspapers together. I began work at Hesketh’s two or three months before Nellie. I was nearly twelve and already I’d had pretty well every job a school kid can get in a small place like Tollerton Clough, which in those days was a little Lancashire village, though now, swallowed up by the outspreading industrial town of Newton, it is simply another drab suburb of that smoky, dirty, but hardheaded and money-spinning town. I had been a butcher’s boy, taken milk out for Ramsden’s, and taken out the orders for Stivvock’s, the grocers, but never lasted long in any of these jobs, always running into trouble of some sort and getting the sack---I always seemed to get fighting with other lads at the wrong time and place. Hesketh’s, therefore, was by way of being my last chance. If I didn’t keep this job, my father said, he would take me away from school on my twelfth birthday---which you could do, in those days at the beginning of the century, if you passed what was called a Labor Exam---and send me down the pit at Newton Main Colliery. I didn’t like school, nobody ever liked school less, but I certainly didn’t want to go down the pit. Tollerton Clough boys didn’t usually go down the pit; they went into the dyeworks or the mill, became farm laborers or bricklayers, or went into one of the Newton factories; and at the age of twelve or so boys like to do the same things as other boys of their age. I had quite made up my mind not to go down the pit.”A famous Frank Tilsley novel which was an early choice for serialisation on television in the 1950s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Champion road,. To get started finding Champion road,, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 563

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode

Release: 1948

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Description: Champion RoadFrank TilsleyThe marriage of an English couple during the turbulent years of two wars. SYNOPSIS: Jonathan Briggs was a self-made man, tough, stubborn, an instinctive fighter. He won his wife Nellie that way. Whether he made a fortune, went off to war, or found comfort in the arms of another woman, he always came home to Nellie. He was kin to every pirate, rode the cotton boom after the first World War, a man who lived hard.“Before telling you about Nellie I should explain about Hesketh’s, and how we came to meet there when we were children, taking out newspapers together. I began work at Hesketh’s two or three months before Nellie. I was nearly twelve and already I’d had pretty well every job a school kid can get in a small place like Tollerton Clough, which in those days was a little Lancashire village, though now, swallowed up by the outspreading industrial town of Newton, it is simply another drab suburb of that smoky, dirty, but hardheaded and money-spinning town. I had been a butcher’s boy, taken milk out for Ramsden’s, and taken out the orders for Stivvock’s, the grocers, but never lasted long in any of these jobs, always running into trouble of some sort and getting the sack---I always seemed to get fighting with other lads at the wrong time and place. Hesketh’s, therefore, was by way of being my last chance. If I didn’t keep this job, my father said, he would take me away from school on my twelfth birthday---which you could do, in those days at the beginning of the century, if you passed what was called a Labor Exam---and send me down the pit at Newton Main Colliery. I didn’t like school, nobody ever liked school less, but I certainly didn’t want to go down the pit. Tollerton Clough boys didn’t usually go down the pit; they went into the dyeworks or the mill, became farm laborers or bricklayers, or went into one of the Newton factories; and at the age of twelve or so boys like to do the same things as other boys of their age. I had quite made up my mind not to go down the pit.”A famous Frank Tilsley novel which was an early choice for serialisation on television in the 1950s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Champion road,. To get started finding Champion road,, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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