Road To Nab End

William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. 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. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920''s Blackburn -- a treat was sheep''s head or cow heel soup -- and got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton in...