Cobbled Streets and Penny Sweets Young YvonnePaperback softback
Cobbled Streets and Penny Sweets Young YvonnePaperback softback Born in the early 1950s, Yvonne Young grew up in the West End of Newcastle. Growing up so soon after the Second World War, it was also…
Specifikacia Cobbled Streets and Penny Sweets Young YvonnePaperback softback
Cobbled Streets and Penny Sweets Young YvonnePaperback softback
Born in the early 1950s, Yvonne Young grew up in the West End of Newcastle. Growing up so soon after the Second World War, it was also a time of great hardship and she grew up surrounded by grinding poverty and neglect. With her grandfather working as a ship painter, her Uncle Tom helping to build them, and her neighbours working for the local armament factory, she saw the city's heart, its manufacturing, all around her.
Yvonne delighted in hearing about the characters that made up the area, seeing the chimney sweep and the coal man make the rounds, and seeing folks singing and dancing in their neighbours' homes after closing time. And yet, people made the best of what little they had, as housewives proudly competed to scrub their doorsteps clean and children turned derelict houses into playgrounds. It was a time when community was everything, before the city's industry began to be