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The Depression Boy
by Alex Clark

By KeithJuly 13, 2016

In the 1920’s, depression wrapped the city of Glasgow like a cloak. Jobs were hard to find and the rent man was never far away but it was with an unassailable optimism that Glaswegians lived their lives and brought up their children. Alex Clark, born in 1920 in a tenement building in Partick, an area…

Reading Level: Adults

Genre: Autobiography, Librario, Non-fiction, Scottish history
Subjects: 1920s, Almost A Hero, Glasgow
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