Author: Barltrop, Robert:
Title: A Funny Age: Part II (2 two) Growing up in North East London between the Wars.
Description: London Borought of Waltham Forest Libraries and Arts Department, 1985 Pbk, VG-, creased along spine hinge at front and a little at rear corner, leading pge edge block a little lightly age-marked, contents clean and tight, pp69. "...tells about the Monoux Grammar School in teh 1930s, in a transition from fee-paying boys to "little monkeys from back streets, who had passed an examination". For some of this time the writer lived at Epping, and he had to help his father on the horse-food round in East London; but school life in Walthamstow continued. Sports and politics in and out of school, and an extraordinary headmaster; morals, manners, Scouts, and the struggle for jobs."

Keywords: North East London Monoux Grammar School 1930s Epping East London Walthamstow sport politics morals manners Scouts employment school life 0901974218


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