William Woodruff

From his birth in the carding-room of a cotton mill until he ran away to London, William Woodruff lived in extreme poverty in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community. The Road to Nab End is the wonderful telling of these childhood years. It is an autobiography brimming with anecdote, and above...

Táblák és a gerinc élei és sarkai megnyomódtak. William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was...