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They Fly Forgotten 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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Acknowledgements<br >my Lane on page 180 are reproduced by<br >Northern Songs, assigned to Catherine<br >1967.<br >(esterday on page 181 are reproduced by<br >Iorthern Songs, ~ 1965.<br >Foreword<br >Manchester turned itself into the first industrial city in the world.<br >As a result, it created the first industrial slum in the world -<br >Ancoats. The aim was to pack as many workers as possible into<br >the most meagre dwellings on the smallest amount of ground,<br >surrounded by palatial mills and tall chimneys. Cotton machin-<br >ery was expensive, people were cheap.<br > Adding to the overcrowding of these two-up two-down hovels<br >came streams of immigrants from Ireland and Italy.<br > When the depression came, these human beings were unwan-<br >ted; they had no value. In order to survive or keep out of the<br >workhouse, many were forced into crime, often violent crime,<br >and a popular saying at the time was - If the world needs an<br >enema, they ll do it in Ancoats. <br > These unwanted people were only concerned with getting<br >food, clothes and the rent money; education for their children<br >was the last thing they cared about. What s the good of learning<br >him to read and write? He ll still end up in Strangeways with the<br >others, mothers sometimes told the school board inspectors.<br > On to this scene, in the late 1920s, came a brand new teacher,<br >fresh from college and wet behind the ears.<br ><br >
They Fly Forgotten 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书