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From william woodruff s birth in 1916 in the carding room of a cot. William woodruff 12 september 1916 23 september 2008 was a professor of world history, but perhaps most noted for his two autobiographical works. There is a nab end several miles away which is a short hill just above the town of whalley on the road between little harwood, a district in the north of blackburn, and whalley but this cannot be construed to be in blackburn. This may have something to do with the fact that kerouac banged out a manuscript in a few weeks on one long piece of typewriter paper. I was introduced to william woodruff s brilliant the road to nab end by someone who, like woodruff, grew up in lancashire and left school very early but who then, through good fortune and kindly advice and support from others, went on to university and became a very distinguished university professor. From william woodruffs birth in 1916 in the carding room of a cotton mill until he ran away to london at the age of sixteen, he lived in the heart of blackburns weaving community in the north of. The second volume of woodruffs memoirs starts with him having arrived in poplar. At he left school and became a delivery boy in a grocers shop. Coming to the end of the first story, where the ugly.
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