Coal Dust and Tin Baths: Growing up in a small Lanarkshire mining village
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Coal Dust and Tin Baths: Growing up in a small Lanarkshire mining village
Sale price
$19.99
Regular price $23.99
Born into a Lanarkshire mining row where coal dust settled on everything, this memoir traces a working-class boyhood shaped by hardship, humour, and unspoken danger. Coal Dust and Tin Baths is a clear-eyed account of growing up in post-war Scotland, where outdoor toilets, tin baths, and coal fires were facts of life, and community was both refuge and restraint.
Told with dark wit and emotional honesty, the book captures a vanished industrial world forged by labour underground and resilience above it. Childhood freedom played out on coal bings and back streets, shadowed by the ever-present risk faced by men who worked the seams. As innocence gives way to adolescence, the story widens to education, football, rebellion, dead-end jobs, and the slow realisation that class shapes lives long after childhood ends.
Neither nostalgic nor condemning, this is a memoir about dignity, survival, and the quiet disappearance of a way of life—told by someone who lived it.
Told with dark wit and emotional honesty, the book captures a vanished industrial world forged by labour underground and resilience above it. Childhood freedom played out on coal bings and back streets, shadowed by the ever-present risk faced by men who worked the seams. As innocence gives way to adolescence, the story widens to education, football, rebellion, dead-end jobs, and the slow realisation that class shapes lives long after childhood ends.
Neither nostalgic nor condemning, this is a memoir about dignity, survival, and the quiet disappearance of a way of life—told by someone who lived it.