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Article: Work, wars and living in West Brom.
- Article from:
- Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
- Article date:
- September 12, 1998
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HE knew well enough that he was living through hard and hungry times, in those years after the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815.
Work was scarce, wages were low and working-class folk everywhere were struggling for their democratic rights.
Yet for all they were often clammed, his dad and his workmates were determined to keep in touch with the battle for reform and they always seemed to find enough farthings to send him for a newspaper.
It wasn't an errand he looked forward to, for he had to make a long and lonely trudge from their home in Lyndon, ...