A BOOK OF LONDON YESTERDAYS
Written by Frederick Willis
Published by Phoenix House
in 1960
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
A BOOK OF LONDON YESTERDAYS
Written by Frederick Willis.
Stock no. 2134288
1st.
1960.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
B/w photos. Some marks to covers. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins. Wrapper is browned to spine with edge-tears and chips, a little loss.
Front cover
Contents
- Book I: Learning
- 1. Life Fades In
- 2. Early Memories
- 3. Joys and Tribulations
- 5. The Board School
- 5. Education Begins
- 6. Jollifications
- 7. My Uncle James
- 8. Goswell Road Menage
- 9. Fin-de-siecle
- Book II: Earning
- 1. The Real World
- 2. The Hatter's Shop
- 3. Labour's Aristocracy
- 4. 'Made in England'
- 5. Victorian Shops and Shopmen
- 6. 'Iron-up, Sir?'
- 7. On Being a Hatter
- 8. 101 Jubilee Road, London, S.E.
- Book III: Spending
- 1. Impecuniosity
- 2. The Golden Sovereign
- 3. The Rosies of 'The Red lions'
- 4. Bohemian Years
- 5. 'Sweet Saturday Night'
- 6. The Old Horse-bus
- Book IV: Leisure
- 1. The Youth of the Century
- 2. Edwardian Nights
- 3. The Melodramas
- 4. 'Drivel for the Dregs'
- 5. The Runacre country
- 6. Bookshops and Pleasure Gardens
- 7. Edwardian Holiday
- 8. Goodbye, Bohemia!
- 9. The Scarlet Line