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Based upon the author's childhood memories. 'This Old Shirt of Mine' is an evocation of life and times of Jimmy Barton, a London kid of junior school age brought up in Islington's notorious Popham Street "Cottages' during the late 1950s. The street, the bomb ruins and the flats themselves provide a unique backdrop to descriptions of everyday life and to some not entirely fictional anecdotes. The book does not dwell on the seamier side of tenement life but portrays in a gently humorous way the more positive aspects of a vanished working class culture when Britain 'never had it so good!'

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: This Old Shirt of Mine
• Subtitle: A 1950s Urban Idyll
• Author: J J Rawlings
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781420886900
• ISBN: 9781420886900
• ID: 08408869
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Weight: 274 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 128 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. October 2005

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