Poverty never went away
Published Date:
19 August 2008
IN reply to the letter from reader R W Jones of Knaresborough (YEP, August 12), may I suggest he answers the letter posed by me re. the photographs depicting the poor children boarding a bus taking them to camp at Silverdale. The photographs he speaks of bear not the slightest relation to my letter.
As an elderly male, born 1920, I was only trying to make a point of the terrible poverty that existed in my early school years that was never fully erased.
Many boys and girls were forced to wear boots for the mines, with many going to school with spoons showing out of the top pocket for malt and liver oil.
The rest of my original letter then comes into play – how could poverty so exist in the wealthiest country in the world, then owning a third of the world's surface, the biggest empire since the fall of the Roman Empire? Tell please, then I will stand corrected and perhaps rest my case.
REGINALD KIRBY, Stanningley, Pudsey
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19 August 2008 11:31 AM
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