Myddle
The life and times of a Shropshire farmworker's daughter in the 1920s
$32.01
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2016
Summary
The unassuming north Shropshire village of Myddle first came to prominence with the publication of Richard Gough’s history of his village, written in the 1700s. Now a fascinating new account has come to light: the account of a poor farm-labourer’s daughter, Helen Ebrey, born into a large family in Myddle in 1911, and her memories of the family’s daily struggle to survive in the years just before the First World War, up to the point when she finally left the village as an adult. The hardship…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910723289 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1910723282 |
| Author: | Helen Ebrey |
| Publisher: | Merlin Unwin Books |
| Imprint: | Merlin Unwin Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Helen Ebrey
Helen Ebrey was born in 1911 into a large poor family who lived in the village of Myddle in Shropshire.She left in 1928 aged 17 for domestic service near Liverpool. Later, working in domestic service in Birmingham.She married in Harold Ivings 1937 and remained living in a city for the next 60 years. Helen died aged 86 in 1997 and is survived by her daughter Elizabeth Brown.
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