For two years he worked as a 'sand rat' in an iron foundry. Like its predessessor , the book is compelling, entertaining, absorbing anf a damned good read. William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. Synopsis. The second volume of Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Synopsis. Sun 27 Jun 2010 17.31 EDT. NAB END is certainly not all grime and gloom however, there's a cast of great minor characters from an unfrocked vicar to William's indomitable grandmother Bridget who lend some colour and humour -- and all against the strongly rendered social backdrop of the 1920s and 1930s. The Road to Nab End describes the joys and sorrows of a family that refused to be crushed by fate. Alfred Hickling. The second volume of Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to The Road to Nab End by William Woodruff (2-Jan-2003) Paperback 5.0 out of 5 stars 3. At the age of sixteen, when he was a temporary laborer in a brickyard, he ran away to London. The Road To Nab End by William Woodruff. Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to The Road to Nab End. Nab End and Beyond: The Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End New edition by Woodruff, William (2006) Paperback 4.6 out of 5 stars 25. Photograph: Ian Tilton. X. Discovering a love of learning, he attended night school. 17 offers from £3.03. NAB END is certainly not all grime and gloom however, there's a cast of great minor characters from an unfrocked vicar to William's indomitable grandmother Bridget who lend some colour and humour -- and all against the strongly rendered social backdrop of the 1920s and 1930s. Paperback. NAB END is certainly not all grime and gloom however, there's a cast of great minor characters from an unfrocked vicar to William's indomitable grandmother Bridget who lend some colour and humour -- and all against the strongly rendered social backdrop of the 1920s and 1930s. Oldham Coliseum's summer production takes us to 1920s Blackburn in an adaptation of William Woodruff's best-selling memoir The Road to Nab End about growing up in an industrial town in Lancashire just as the British cotton industry began to fall apart and the depression took hold.. (Minimum cast 5m 3f + supernumeraries – Maximum cast 24m 15f) An adaptation of William Woodruff’s bestseller The Road to Nab End, an evocative rags-to-riches memoir of growing up among the cotton mills of Great War Lancashire. Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to The Road to Nab End. This book is brilliant, it is the perfect sequel to Road to Nab End. 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