The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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now occupied by Jackson, the Tobaacconist, the other half being occupied by drunken butcher Frearson. His family occupied one side of the house, Mrs. Major 3 rooms at the back, facing the Dunkirk Shambles. The kitchen, coal place, pantry open petty, all underground were used in common by both families. The sanitary condition was such as would not be allowed to exist now. The stench from the petty in the pantries was simply abominable. What with the unsanitary condition of the lower rooms, and the immoral state of the drunken butcher’s part of the house, it was a strange contrast to my old Lodge home. He soon drank himself into a terrible state of delirium tremens, his room was opposite where I slept, his death was awful. When I had been a fortnight a letter came from the Mrs that she was staying a week longer in London. I had become somewhat

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