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The Last of the Climbing Boys: An Autobiography
by
George Elson
Hardcover
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287 pages
Published
1900
by John Long
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I have been trying to get my hands on this book for about eighteen months, since reading about it in Benita Cullingford's British Chimney Sweeps . It's the only memoir of a 'climbing boy', a boy who was employed to climb up chimneys to clean them. It was a hard book to get. It was published in two editions, in 1900 and 1902. In about 1927 it was microfiched by Harvard as part of a social history series. Much later a company scanned it from the British Museum's copy of the 1900 edition, ...more
I have been trying to get my hands on this book for about eighteen months, since reading about it in Benita Cullingford's British Chimney Sweeps . It's the only memoir of a 'climbing boy', a boy who was employed to climb up chimneys to clean them. It was a hard book to get. It was published in two editions, in 1900 and 1902. In about 1927 it was microfiched by Harvard as part of a social history series. Much later a company scanned it from the British Museum's copy of the 1900 edition, ...more
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