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Book Synopsis From London Slums to South Oxhey by : Terry Trainor
Download or read book From London Slums to South Oxhey written by Terry Trainor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a journey from the London Slums to a new green field council estate called South Oxhey. As I stumbled down a muddy road in the 1950's on a new London overspill estate. Rain fell in buckets down my back dripping into my shirt cold and wet. These boarded up new terraced houses will soon be some body's home but for now they stand empty. The bitter wind blows shutter boards to rattle against red brick window sills. Black L.C.C cast iron drainpipes and gutters Adorn the drain pipes a friendly emblem of the past. The settlers are proud of their embossed drain pipes. Across the road a man stands by a concrete lamppost shaped like a question mark not yet used. Trying to roll a cigarette his hands are wet the paper tears he shakes his wet head confused. He tries again but this time a large blob of water drops from his nose soaking all of his papers. He swears loadly stuffs his hands into his pockets and hurriedly walks off.
Book Synopsis London Slums to South Oxhey by : Terry Trainor
Download or read book London Slums to South Oxhey written by Terry Trainor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building The Beast Stumbling down a muddy road in the 1950's on a new London overspill estate. Rain fell in buckets down my back dripping into my shirt cold and wet. Boarded up new terraced houses will soon be some body's home, now standing empty. Wind blowing shutter boards rattling against red brick window sills. Black L.C.C cast iron drainpipes and gutters. Across the road a man stands by a concrete lamppost shaped like a question mark not yet used. Trying to roll a cigarette his hands are wet the paper tears he shakes his wet head confused.
Book Synopsis Slums of London to South Oxhey by : Terry Trainor
Download or read book Slums of London to South Oxhey written by Terry Trainor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He would have seen girls and boys of only six years old just a year older than him bundled into carts and transported like cattle, often hundreds of miles away, to work in the factories and mills of Britain's industrial heartlands, where they would be beaten as they laboured 16 hours a day in exchange for a few spoonfuls of gruel.
Book Synopsis From the Slums of London to South Oxhey by : Terry Trainor
Download or read book From the Slums of London to South Oxhey written by Terry Trainor and published by Terry Trainor. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hi my name is Terry Trainor and have written many best seller books. The Clapper of the Bird Boy, Classical Poetry, Spring Hitches up her Stockings and many more. This book is about the lives of people in London from the workhouses, the slums, overcrowding. This community was migrated to a green field site outside of London to a council estate named South Oxhey. I lived in South Oxhey for thirty years and it is a book I have always wanted to write.Building the EstateStumbling down a muddy road in the 1950's on a new London overspill estate. Rain fell in buckets down my back dripping into my shirt cold and wet. Boarded up new terraced houses will soon be some body's home, now standing empty. Wind blowing shutter boards rattling against red brick window sills. Black L.C.C cast iron drainpipes and gutters.Across the road a man stands by a concrete lamppost shaped like a question mark not yet used. Trying to roll a cigarette his hands are wet the paper tears he shakes his wet head confused. Walking past a working mans club at 10.30 am. A group outside the door sheltering from the wind, it is shut until 11.00 am. Dumper trucks lying empty along the road the metal seats filling with water, a grey hard day. Hard bad days to come in the future of the Estate.The wind howled as it blew along the terraces, gusts billowing heavy coats forward. Reminds me of a picture I once saw of an American actress her dress all blown up, can't think of the name but it will come it always does. And how long is this road it goes on for miles it is called Prestwick Road? It twists through the estate a feeder for smaller roads. A dumping place for bricks and tar, curb stones, sand and scaffolding.Two dogs run and bark at bricks left in the road. They stop as I walk past and look my way. Their teeth bared snarling looking for a weakness. I picked up a piece of board and threw it at them. They could run away the new residents could not.Reaching the shops by the approach to the station I could see steam from a partly opened window and a smell of fried greasy food. I went into this cafe for a cup of hot steaming tea. I sat by a window wiped off condensation to be able to look out.A young girl takes orders and sighs constantly, is this what she dreamed of when leaving school? Bacon sandwiches the special of the day with a cup of Bill Taylors strong sweet tea the spoons on chains. (A legend in his own lunchtime) Men sat talking to each other about hard times, no work, no money and their favorite football teams.Some of the men had one pound notes folded in their pockets checking it was still there. The money will be used in the betting shop when it opens and a lucky few who do win will be in a club forcing down pints of warm beer. Telling anyone who will listen of how well they were doing in London and why they had to be moved right out in the sticks?The train pulled up a Carpenders Park Station, on the down line, that is on the way to Watford Junction. The year was 1958 it was a cold rainy day. At that time is was a platform on either side of the rails. To go to Carpenders Park there was a set of wooden stairs used to cross the live electrical rails. I had noticed that between the station of Hatch End and Carpenders Park there was a black and white pyramid shaped cast iron post, I later found out that that was a coal tax point, a shilling extra per ton of coal past this point. We were moving to Carpenders Park. There were some new build council roads one called Romilly Drive the other Oulton Way, and a long line of houses down Little Oxhey Lane.
Book Synopsis Victorian London Slums Seven Dials by : Terry Trainor
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Book Synopsis Far from the East End by : Iris Jones Simantel
Download or read book Far from the East End written by Iris Jones Simantel and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Saga Magazine 'Life Story' competition winner** From the streets of London to the Welsh countryside, evacuee Iris Simantel tells of her desperate search for somewhere to belong in Far From the East End. Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, Iris spent her early years playing in the rubble of bombed buildings in Dagenham by day and cowering in a dusty shelter at night. But the hardships of poverty and the dreaded Blitz could not match the pain she felt at her parents' indifference. She prayed that just once her mother would hold her when the bombs rained down. But loneliness only intensified when she was evacuated. Finding the nurturing home she had always dreamt of in her adopted Welsh parents, she wonders what, when she returns to London after the war, will be waiting for her. Will she ever be able to love her philandering father, depressive mother and an angry, bullying brother? Will her family even survive? Or will she have to look farther afield for the affection she so longs for? Prepare to be taken on a beautiful and emotional journey with Iris Simantel's nostalgic memoir, Far from the East End. Iris Simantel is the acclaimed winner of the Saga Magazine 'Life Story' competition, telling of her evacuation from Dagenham to Wales, and her family's post-War move to South Oxney. She now lives in Devon.
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Book Synopsis The GI Bride by : Iris Jones Simantel
Download or read book The GI Bride written by Iris Jones Simantel and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the remarkable memoir by GI Bride and bestselling author Iris Jones Simantel. Iris had escaped the Blitz but now lived in crippling poverty after the war - until a chance meeting changed her life. Aged just sixteen, she fell in love and married US soldier Bob Irvine. And soon after she set sail for a new life in America. It was the 1950s, the land of hope, dreams and Doris Day movies. But Iris ended up in a cramped Chicago bungalow, shared with Bob's parents. With a baby on the way and a husband turning daily into a stranger, Iris was wracked by homesickness. Trapped and desperately lonely, she had to make a fresh start, in a country where hope and opportunity thrived. In this dramatic sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller, Far From the East End, we follow young Iris Jones Simantel from London to New York, Chicago and Las Vegas in her struggle to find work, love and a sense of belonging in a foreign land. Iris Simantel is the acclaimed winner of the Saga Magazine 'Life Story' competition, beating several thousand entries to publish her first memoir Far From the East End. Iris grew up in Dagenham and South Oxhey (with an evacuation to Wales in between) before marrying her GI husband Bob and moving to Chicago. She now resides in Devon where she enjoys writing as a pastime.
Book Synopsis Environmental Health and Housing by : Jill Stewart
Download or read book Environmental Health and Housing written by Jill Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Environmental Health and Housing has been completely updated to cover the contemporary issues in public health that have emerged in recent years. With a theory and practice approach to public health, this edition focuses more on population health, health protection and improvement, and inter-agency approaches to effective intervention in housing and health through evidence-based practice. It provides the ideal introduction to the area, covering policy and strategy in housing, housing and inequality, housing inclusion, and the public health agenda. It provides a renewed focus on research into evidence-based housing and health issues, which have become subjects of growing international interest in recent years. This edition includes more case studies, reflection, and a greater emphasis on wider living environments. It also includes major pieces of new legislation, most notably the Housing Act 2004 and the Housing and Planning Act 2016, as well as related regulations.
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Book Synopsis Homes Fit For Heroes by : Mark Swenarton
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Book Synopsis A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams by : Jeff Pearce
Download or read book A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams written by Jeff Pearce and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poor boy who made his fortune . . . not just once but twice Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his mother was forced to steal bread to feed her starving children. Life was tough and from the moment Jeff could walk he learned to go door to door, begging rags from the rich, which he sold down the markets. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, he embarked on an extraordinary journey, and found himself, before the age of thirty, a millionaire. Then, after a cruel twist of fate left him penniless, he, his wife and children were forced out of their beautiful home. With nothing but holes in his pockets, Jeff had no alternative but to go back down the markets and start all over again. Did he still have what it took? Could he really get back everything he had lost? A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams is the heartwarming true story of a little boy who had nothing but gained everything and proof that, sometimes, rags can be turned into riches . . .
Download or read book Prefabs written by Elisabeth Blanchet and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As slums were cleared all across England after the Blitz in World War II, the need for housing became pressing, and prefabrication was quickly embraced as a temporary solution. The resulting bungalows with slightly pitched roofs, pretty gardens, and all modern conveniences became home to hundreds of thousands of people around the country, including many who had not previously had the luxury of hot running water or a fridge. These squat little homes were meant to last just a decade--a mere stopgap as the country got back on its feet--but many of the prefabs are still standing today, with residents often fighting to hold on to them. Responding to growing public interest in these fast disappearing houses and the communities they fostered, this book recounts residents' first-hand experiences--from the first time they laid eyes on these "little castles" to their attempts to hold onto them beyond their designated short-term time frame. Authors consider the relative success of postwar prefab housing in the wider context of British social housing and examine clever solutions being put forward to solve the housing crisis today. Fewer and fewer prefabs remain, but you can still spot them here and there across the English landscape, sitting cozily among their big brick-built neighbors, a lesson in thoughtful design and community-building.
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Download or read book The Hill written by Horace Annesley Vachell and published by Koteliansky Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
