NOT SO MERRY WAKEFIELD

Softcover. A book providing both a personal history and an account of Wakefield in the 20th century from the perspective of someone whose life - itself at times traumatic - has been closely bound up with the city for more than 70yrs. 1933, the year the author was born, was Wakefield's 'Year of Progess'. The so-called Merrie Citie was the county town of the great West Riding of Yorkshire. It had a sound industrial base in coalmining, engineering and textiles. There was some civic pride. Since then economic, administrative, physical and cultural changes have destroyed something of its intimacy, identity and character. Illus., Index. 176pp. trade size softcover. As new with no creasing to covers.