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The Life and Times of Tom ‘Hockey’ Howells, Newport, South Wales, 1913-1994

Author(s):

Howells, Hilda; Jones, Jenny (editor)

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Binding:

Softcover

Volume Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

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Impression:

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Signature:

None

Language:

English

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Publication Year:

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Publication Place:

Tintern

ISBN:

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Book ID:

037222

Catalogue(s):

Autobiography and Biography ◇ Local Interest and History – Wales

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32pp stapled booklet with some black and white illustrations, in laminated stiff card covers. 8vo. Gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

The edited memoirs of Tom Howells, known as Hockey for his habit of having Hock in his lunchbox. Howells was a Newport Dockworker and served in the navy during the Secord World War. His memoirs reveal much of the hardship of poverty and unemployment in south Wales in the 1930s, and of the precariousness of life at sea and in a labour camp. There’s a handwritten letter from his wife, Hilda, who edited the memoirs, describing his life while pitching (I think) for the volume to be expanded and republished, loosely laid in.

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