A Lancashire Past

This Book Concerns A Vanished World. . From 1926 Birth The Year Of The General Strike In The Uk The Life Of And Significant Influences On A Working-Class Boy.. Industrial Lancashire Location Bordering The Yorkshire Dales. Family Struggles In The Cotton Industry And A World War I Diversion. . Active Participation In Trade Unionism And Local Labour Party By Father And Grandfather. Father Ex Officio. . Three Siblings All Soon Initiated Into The Connection Between Work And Money Coupled With The Necessity For Food Production From Hens Allotments And The Countryside. . Parental Marriage Breakdown. Rescue By Loving Extraordinary Grandparents. Overcrowding And A Nomadic Lifestyle. . Father Increasingly Politically Active. Secretary Of Local Branch Of Communist Party. Author Soon A Trusted Messenger. Surreptitiously Collecting Correspondence Officially Considered Seditious And Earlier Feared Intercepted By 1930S Special Branch. . Family Habitually And Totally Committed To The Open Air And Associated Rural Pursuits. Rambling Cycling Yha. And At A Time Long Before Total Motorised Domination And Ecological Concerns. . Blessed With An Above-Average Brain Selected At Ten Years For Grammar School Education In A Pioneering Wave Of Local Working-Class Children Thus Privileged. . An Educational System And Atmosphere Unprepared For And Unwelcoming To The Children Of Artisans.Enthusiastic Sporting Commitment Mirroring The Wider Family Involvement. . A Stubborn Adolescent Determined To Resist Family Wishes And Pressure To Follow Higher Education Joining The War-Time Labour Force Aged Sixteen.