Winifred Foley's best-selling account of a childhood in the Forest of Dean in the first half of this century. She describes how life in a small mining community was one of economic hardship...more details Format:Hardcover
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Foley Winifred
ISBN:9780349122182
'Few people visited the Forest of Dean. They thought us primitive, and looked down on us.' Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter ? in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:247
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Winifred Foley
ISBN:9780753198162
As a child in the 1920s, Winifred Foley was fascinated by the reminiscences of her Great Aunt Lizzie. Born and brought up in the Forest of Dean in the 1870s...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:112
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Winifred Foley;Sarah Sherborne
ISBN:9780753104934
To anyone born after World War II Winifred Foley's account of her childhood, domestic service, her early married life with Syd, and her final return to her beloved Forest of Dean must seem incredible. Throughout a life which might have broken many a brave spirit Winifred Foley's sense of humor...more details Format:Hardcover
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Foley Winifred
ISBN:9780349122939
After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Winifred Foley
ISBN:9780753176559
The village chapel has no graveyard; villagers must go to rest in the churchyard two miles away. Many of the graves have headstones and those that haven't have their jam-jars of flowers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:88
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Winifred Foley
ISBN:9780753176542
The village chapel has no graveyard; villagers must go to rest in the churchyard two miles away. Many of the graves have headstones and those that haven't are neatly trimmed and in season have their jam-jars of flowers...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:112
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Winifred Foley
ISBN:9780753179703
Forced to find another job to help support her family, Laura leaves the Forest of Dean to take up the position as maid to a Jewish family in London. She quickly settles in to life with the Cohens...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:105
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Winifred Foley
ISBN:9780753179710
Forced to find another job, Laura takes up the position as maid to a family in London. She quickly settles in befriending the daughter Rachel and catching the eye of both unmarried sons. After a tragic incident...more details Format:Paperback Pages:120