The One Hour Thought
Harris, Christina M
Born with learning difficulties into a poor, working class family in Bradford in 1924, Harry Lawton lived a very different life always on the edge of society - on the outside looking in.
When his mother died suddenly and his father remarried, his happy childhood was gone. He was mistreated by his first step-mother, ignored by the second and unloved by his father.
Leaving school at 14, with barely the basics, he worked as a doffer (having the l...