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The Vanished Landscape: A 1930s Childhood in the Potteries by Paul Johnson (Hardcover, 2004)
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Paul Johnson, the celebrated historian, grew up in Tunstall, one of the six towns around Stoke-on-Trent that made up the Potteries'. From an early age he was fascinated by the strange beauty of its volcanic landscape of fiery furnaces belching out heat and smoke. As a child he often accompanied his father - headmaster of the local art school and desperate to find jobs for his students, for this was the Hungry Thirties - to the individual pottery firms and their coal-fired ovens. His adored mother and father are at the heart of this story and his older sisters who, as much as his parents, brought him up. Children made their own amusements to an extent unimaginable today, and his life was extraordinarily free and unsupervised. No door was locked - Poverty was everywhere but so were the Ten Commandments.' These pages recall the joys of going to school on a minor branch-line - the 1930s were the tail-end of the great age of rail in England - and the eccentricities and ferocity of grown-ups in an age before political correctness. The book ends in 1938 as the author queues at the town-hall for a gas mask.Product Identifiers
PublisherOrion Publishing Group
ISBN-139780297847724
eBay Product ID (ePID)87666155
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Number of Pages216 Pages
Publication NameThe Vanished Landscape: a 1930s Childhood in the Potteries
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
AuthorPaul Johnson
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height226 mm
Item Weight416 g
Item Width147 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorPaul Johnson
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- 12 Sep, 2023
The Vanished Landscape: A 1930s Childhood in the Potteries
Interesting account of growing up in the Potteries towns in the 1930s and 1940s. I bought the book as it had references to parts of the Potteries that are featured in a forthcoming play that I am going to see, so I was interested to find out more about some history of the the northern Potteries towns.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
