(Paperback)

In this autobiography, the author evokes his Edwardian childhood in his portrait of a vanished community as he tells how he and the other children of Salford struggled daily to survive the poverty that surrounded them.

(Paperback)

A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the 'good old days' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.

(Paperback)

Gives a plethora of information about household duties of a butler like: how do dress suitably for work; regulations for the dinner table; directions for clearing tea trays; giving Britannia metal a brilliant polish; preserving fruits for the year; addressing and behaving properly around your employer; and more.