Summary
Triumphant, he appeared in a cheap Burton suit, stuffing £20 notes into family members' breast pockets and speaking in an odd new accent punctuated with "mate" and "blimey" and "ori righ'?". [...] in parts of London like Kentish Town and Kilburn, and the green enclaves of other British cities, too many once -proud labourers, excavators and ward sisters still shuffle about, forgotten not only by their own country, but also by the nation that took them in and was enriched by their commitment and energy.
See the full content of this document
Extract
The New Irish Rovers
The photographs are all the same. Monochrome. Snapped with cheap cameras on building sites or beside newly laid chunks of motorway....
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
