The Worm-Eaten Waistcoat

Alison Backhouse

ISBN 0-9544800-0-7

"Go West, Young Man!" was the exhortation to the youth of North America in the nineteenth century. One hundred years earlier, the cry which George Fettes heard in Edinburgh was "Go South, Young Man!" and he did just that. By the late 1770s, he had travelled 200 miles south and was working in the pawnbroker's shop in Lady Peckett's Yard in York.

This is the opening paragraph of the new book by Alison Backhouse
about a York pawnbroker and his customers.

Read about real life in the pawn-broker's pledge office during 1777-78.
George Fettes' comments about his customers and their pledges
are extremely entertaining!

Essential for everyone who has ever found it hard to make ends meet -
and invaluable for students of social history, costume, watches
and those with a pawnbroker as an ancestor.

112 pages, including 6 Chapters, 9 Appendices, 50 Illustrations and Tables
and a Comprehensive Index.

Cost is £6.99 + £1 UK Post & Packing (or click on the Orders page).

Publisher: A R Backhouse
4 Elm Tree Avenue
Upper Poppleton
York YO26 6HL
England

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