Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS Series
By Lynn Russell and Neil Hanson
()
Unavailable in your country
Unavailable in your country
About this series
This is Maureen’s story, one of five stories extracted from THE SWEETHEARTS.
Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire.
“Maureen started work at Rowntree’s on her fifteenth birthday in April 1959, and remembers being the only one in the entire workforce who was wearing ankle socks. But she soon settled in and on Saturday afternoons Maureen and the rest of the girls would go into town – 'I really liked the fashions then and used to love getting dressed up in those days. We wore stockings and suspenders, stilettos, and we always wore gloves, usually white ones, and shoes and handbag to match. We all wore skirts under our overalls and hooped petticoats. My digs were just over the bridge from Rowntree’s and the boys used to love watching me run down the bridge in the morning! I was never late for work, but I usually cut it pretty fine and often had to run the last couple of hundred yards. The hoops would ride up while I was running so there’d be a lot of wolf whistles from the boys…’”
From the 1930s through to the 1980s, as Britain endured war, depression, hardship and strikes, the women at the Rowntree’s factory in York kept the chocolates coming. This is the true story of The Sweethearts, the women who roasted the cocoa beans, piped the icing and packed the boxes that became gifts for lovers, snacks for workers and treats for children across the country. More often than not, their working days provided welcome relief from bad husbands and bad housing, a community where they could find new confidence, friendship and when the supervisor wasn’t looking, the occasional chocolate.
Read more from Lynn Russell
The Sweethearts: Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Wish You Were Here!: The Lives, Loves and Friendships of the Butlin's Girls Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS
Related ebooks
Reach Your Dreams: Five Steps to be a Conscious Creator in Your Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFAME: Psy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVincent Price Presents: Tinglers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe First Extraterrestrial Signal: The Global Reaction to the Signal from the Outer Space Aliens Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIf I Were Born Here Volume II (Greece, India, Kenya, Mexico, Israel) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBruce the Fire Dog and His North Pole Friends Say Hello Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBreaking Down the Wall Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlackbeard Legacy #2 Volume 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJustly Poetic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhost Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Galactic Traveler: The Story of Enoch Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRuth & Freddy #4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrossed Wires: Team-Up Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlessed Days, Volume 6: Blessed Days, #6 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConfessions for the Narrow Road: It's Within You! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Itsy and Bitsy Birdie Book Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Forgotten Spoon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFAME: Pop Stars #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVincent Price Presents: Gallery #4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGood Jokes Bad Drawings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVincent Price Presents #31 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Way of Courage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFemale Force: Gabrielle Giffords Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPolitical Power: Rush Limbaugh Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBreastfeeding and Parenting: Your baby will teach you how Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNuggets for the Soul: Poems That Will Inspire You Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEye of the Beholder Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStyx & Stone #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLegend of Isis: Darkness Falls Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Social History For You
The Library Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whore Stories: A Revealing History of the World's Oldest Profession Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Three Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slaves in the Family Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untold History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5made in america: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Miami Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS
0 ratings0 reviews