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Author:   Florence Hopper ,  Marguerite A. Wood
Publisher:   Arena Books
Imprint:   Arena Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.305kg
ISBN:  

9781909421257

ISBN 10:   1909421251
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   02 December 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  Young adult ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  General ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction page 9; Part I - Life on the Farm; Section 1 - Life on the Wolds' Farms page 11; Section 2 - Sheep Farming page 46; Part II - Life in Driffield and the Surrounding Villages; Section 1 - Communities, People and Places page 53; Section 2 - Home Hints and Recipes page 94; Section 3 - Humorous Anecdotes page 106; Section 4 - There's nowt s'queer as Fowlkes page 121; Section 5 - Pets and Gardens page 133; Section 6 - Children and Traditional Play page 147; Part III - Fishing, Weather and the Sea page 161; Part IV - Ghostly Happenings and Other Stories page 177; Codicil - Tanks on the Wolds page 197; Original contributions to the Diary of a Yorkshireman are taken from the Yorkshire Evening Post and Humberside Echoes are taken from the Hull Mail, between February 1934 and September 1939.

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Florence Hopper, the author of the articles collected here was a freelance journalist, broadcaster and artist. She began her career in the early 1930s contributing to the Diary of a Yorkshireman in The Yorkshire Evening Post and Humberside Echoes in The Hull Daily Mail, seldom writing under her own name. Towards the end of her life she also wrote for the Driffield Times under the name of 'Aunt Emmy,' until her death. From the beginning she pasted her newspaper cuttings in a large scrapbook. They are a varied and wonderfully evocative record of daily life in and around the market town of Driffield in the Yorkshire Wolds during the 1930s. It was found, by her niece, in the back of a cupboard after Florence died. She has re-arranged the newspaper cuttings in chronological Sections according to subject to aid readers, whilst preserving their originality.

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