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Working families in Victorian Lancashire had few choices. Work; starve; or face the workhouse and the break up of their family. Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives recreates everyday life for textile workers, canal boat families, coalminers, metal workers navvies and glassblowers using contemporary eyewitness accounts and interviews. It depicts the dire state of towns and the dreadful hazards workers faced on a daily basis. Who was the knocker-upper'? Why did families eat tommyrot'? Why couldn't Lump Lad' sleep soundly in his bed? Men, women and children endured incredibly long working hours in appalling conditions but their toil helped make Britain Great.'

Narrow Windows Narrow Lives

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      Publisher The History Press Ltd
      Published 21 January 2008
      ISBN-13 9780752442532
      978-0752442532
      ISBN-10 0752442538

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      Working families in Victorian Lancashire had few choices. Work; starve; or face the workhouse and the break up of their family. Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives recreates everyday life for textile workers, canal boat families, coalminers, metal workers navvies and glassblowers using contemporary eyewitness accounts and interviews. It depicts the dire state of towns and the dreadful hazards workers faced on a daily basis. Who was the knocker-upper'? Why did families eat tommyrot'? Why couldn't Lump Lad' sleep soundly in his bed? Men, women and children endured incredibly long working hours in appalling conditions but their toil helped make Britain Great.'

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