Meticulously
researched - packed with personal recollections and
memories, photographs and original reports and statistics
- a fascinating, endearing portrait of the ‘Leeds
Poor Children’s Holiday Camp’ and
the experiences of the children who have visited.
The author, Frances McNeil, a ‘Silverdaler’
herself, has written extensively for theatre, radio
and television. Her novel Somewhere behind the Morning,
capturing lives in working class Leeds around the time
of the First World War, is published by Orion.
The central character in Sixpence in Her Shoe (Orion,
August 2006) makes a journey from Leeds to Morecambe
Bay in the late 1920s. |
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