"with the first nine being devoted to the non-fiction books and novels and the final eleven volumes entitled: In 2001 Penguin published four selections from ""The Complete Works of George Orwell"" edited by Peter Davison in their modern classics series titled ""Orwell and the Dispossessed: Down and Out in Paris and London in the Context of Essays, Reviews and Letters selected from The Complete Works of George Orwell"" with an introduction by Peter Clarke, ""Orwell's England: The Road to Wigan Pier in the Context of Essays, Reviews, Letters and Poems selected from The Complete Works of George Orwell"" with an"
"Orwell in his book, ""The Road to Wigan Pier"". Orwell highlighted the poor working and living conditions of the local inhabitants during the 1930s. Historically a part of Lancashire; during the Industrial Revolution Wigan experienced dramatic economic expansion and a rapid rise in the population. Although porcelain manufacture and clock making had been major industries in the town, Wigan has since become known as a major mill town and coal mining district. The first coal mine was established at Wigan in 1450 and at its peak there were 1,000 pit shafts within of the town centre. Mining was so extensive"
"the living conditions in the Rosehall area of Coatbridge: George Orwell's book ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" was illustrated by a photograph of homes in the Rosehall area of Coatbridge. In 1934 there was an exodus to Corby in England when the local Union Plant relocated. This had the effect of a hammer blow impact on the town's iron industry and ushered in the end of serious iron production. The decline of the Clydeside shipbuilding industry in the 1950s meant the demand for iron finally collapsed. A legacy of 'devastating' unemployment, appalling housing conditions and some of the worst overcrowding"
"where towns such as Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea had unemployment rates reaching above 25% at certain times. The industrial belt of central Scotland, also a major shipbuilding centre in Glasgow, was also hard hit by the slump. In these areas, millions of unemployed and their families were left destitute, and queueing at soup kitchens became a way of life. A government report in the mid-1930s estimated that around 25% of the UK's population existed on a subsistence diet, often with signs of child malnutrition such as scurvy, rickets and tuberculosis. In his book ""The Road to Wigan Pier"", George Orwell"
"given today to the area around the canal at the bottom of the Wigan flight of locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The book was reviewed on 14 March 1937 by Edward Shanks, for ""The Sunday Times"", and by Hugh Massingham, for ""The Observer"". Harry Pollitt reviewed the book, vitriolically, for the 17 March 1937 issue of the ""Daily Worker"", though even he ""was forced to concede some merit to its first part"". In general, early reviewers of ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" praised Orwell's depiction of the working class in Part I. The poet Edith Sitwell wrote ""the"
"callit Corybrekan. This stream is aught myle lang, quhilk may not be hantit bot be certain tyds."" In 1820 the world's first passenger paddleship the PS ""Comet"" was wrecked at nearby Craignish Point due to the strong currents in the area. Writer George Orwell and his three-year-old son (who lived at Barnhill in northern Jura) were briefly shipwrecked on the skerry of Eilean Mor (south of the whirlpool) when boating in the gulf, and Orwell's one-legged brother-in-law Bill Dunn was the first person to swim the gulf. Minke whales and porpoises swim in the fast-moving waters and only the most"
"another Suffolk river the Ore and Orfordness, the village port of Orford with its historic castle. The Orwell provides a popular venue for sailing. Interest originally centred on the hamlet of Pin Mill (featured in two children's novels by Arthur Ransome: ""We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea"" and ""Secret Water""), which is home to the Pin Mill Sailing Club and its Hard. Ransome had kept his yacht ""Selina King"" at the Pin Mill anchorage in 1937–39. Since the 1970s marinas have opened at Levington (Suffolk Yacht Harbour, pictured), Woolverstone, Fox's (just outside Ipswich), and two marinas in the old"
"pre-Celtic; but ""-well"" probably indicates an Anglo-Saxon naming. In ""A tour through England and Wales"" written in 1722, Daniel Defoe calls the river ""Orwel"" (though does this inconsistently). He also mentions that ""a traveller will hardly understand me, especially a seaman, when I speak of the River Stour and the River Orwell at Harwich, for they know them by no other names than those of Maningtre-Water, and Ipswich-Water"". The writer Eric Blair chose the pen name under which he would later become famous, ""George Orwell"", because of his love for the river. A few miles north of the Orwell is"
"township, whilst its collieries, factories ... fill the atmosphere with smoke"". After the Second World War there was a boom followed by a slump from which Wigan's textile industry did not recover. While the town's cotton and coal industries declined in the 20th century, the engineering industry did not go into recession. The last working cotton mill, May Mill, closed in 1980. In 1937, Wigan was prominently featured in George Orwell's ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" which dealt, in large part, with the living conditions of England's working poor. Some have embraced the Orwellian link, as it has provided the"
"and ""Forgive us our Trespasses"" (1947, based on a true story of twin boys lost at sea) renames the town Senwich. ""The Bookshop"" by Penelope Fitzgerald (1978) drew on her experiences working in a Southwold bookshop in the 1950s. An earlier book thought to be set in Southwold is ""Beside the Guns"" (1902) by the Christian author Mary Elizabeth Shipley. The German writer W. G. Sebald describes Southwold in ""The Rings of Saturn"", an account of a walk through East Anglia. The writer George Orwell (then known as Eric Blair) spent time as a teenager and in his thirties in"
"associated with specific regions of England; these include Charles Dickens (London), Thomas Hardy (Wessex), A. E. Housman (Shropshire), and the Lake Poets (the Lake District). In the lighter vein, Agatha Christie's mystery novels are outsold only by Shakespeare and The Bible. Described as ""perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture"", the non-fiction works of George Orwell include ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England. Orwell's eleven rules for making tea appear in his essay ""A Nice Cup of Tea"", which was published in the ""London Evening Standard"""
"Lyme Regis Lyme Regis is a town in West Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Styled ""The Pearl of Dorset"", it lies at Lyme Bay on the English Channel coast at the Dorset–Devon border. It is noted for fossils found in cliffs and beaches on the Heritage Coast or Jurassic Coast – a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall known as ""The Cobb"" appears in Jane Austen's novel ""Persuasion"", in the John Fowles novel ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", and in the 1981 film of that name, which was partly shot in the town. A former mayor and"
"however Barnsley is most famous for its coal mines. In 1960, there were 70 collieries within a 15-mile radius of Barnsley town centre, but the last of these closed in 1994. The National Union of Mineworkers still has its HQ in Barnsley. George Orwell mentioned the town in ""The Road to Wigan Pier"". He arrived in the town on 11 March 1936 and spent a number of days in the town living in the houses of the working class miners while researching for the book. He wrote very critically of the council's expenditure on the construction of Barnsley Town Hall"
"displays describing how people's lives are affected by war. The Museum of Transport in Manchester, which opened in 1979, has one of the largest collections of vehicles in the country. The People's History Museum is ""the national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in Britain"". The Pankhurst Museum is based in the early feminist Emmeline Pankhurst's former home and includes a parlour laid out in contemporary style. Manchester United, Manchester City, and Lancashire CCC all have dedicated museums illustrating their histories. Wigan Pier, best known from George Orwell's book"
"album's plot, and features in the 1979 film. Townshend later said that the rest of the band understood this element of the story, as it related to their mod roots. The 2014 novel ""The Bone Clocks"" by David Mitchell includes passages that take place on the pier. The 2015 British TV series, ""Cuffs"", which takes place in Brighton features the pier, both in the opening theme as well as in parts of the story lines. In 2015, Martyn Ware, founding member of pop group The Human League, made a series of field recordings on the pier as part of a"
"""Carry On Girls"" (1973) which was filmed on the pier and in locations nearby in Brighton. It was also prominently featured in the French comedy ""La Course à l'échalote"" (1975), starring Pierre Richard and Jane Birkin. In Nick Cave's novel ""The Death of Bunny Munro"", Bunny's son speculates on a reason for the 2003 fires. The band James filmed the video for ""Just Like Fred Astaire"" on and around the West Pier. Notes Bibliography West Pier The West Pier is a pier in Brighton, England. It was designed by Eugenius Birch, opening in 1866 and closing in 1975. The pier"
"the scenery. Indeed, he has only one fault to find with it, and that is in respect of the celebrated Wigan Pier, which he had set his heart on seeing. Alas! Wigan Pier had been demolished, and even the spot where it used to stand is no longer certain."" Some have embraced the Orwellian link, as it has provided the area with a modest tourist base over the years. ""It seems funny to celebrate Orwell for highlighting all our bad points, but Wigan wouldn't be anywhere near as famous without him,"" said the Wigan Pier Experience's manager, Carole Tyldesley. ""In"
"improve the visitor centre. Clevedon Pier Clevedon Pier is a seaside pier in the town of Clevedon, Somerset, England on the east shore of the Severn Estuary. It has been described by Sir John Betjeman, as ""the most beautiful pier in England"" and was designated a Grade I listed building in 2001. The pier was built during the 1860s to attract tourists and provide a ferry port for rail passengers to South Wales. The pier is long and consists of eight spans supported by steel rails covered by wooden decking, with a pavilion on the pier head. The pier opened"
"River Orwell The River Orwell flows through the county of Suffolk in England. Its source river, above the tidal limit at Stoke Bridge, is known as the River Gipping. It broadens into an estuary at Ipswich where the Ipswich dock has operated since the 7th century and then flows into the North Sea at Felixstowe the UK's largest container port after joining with the River Stour at Shotley forming Harwich harbour. The large Orwell Bridge carries the A14 trunk road over the estuary to the south of Ipswich. In the name ""Orwell"", ""Or-"" comes from an ancient river-name — probably"
"Butt and Oyster The Butt and Oyster is an old inn on the River Orwell in Pin Mill, Suffolk. It was listed for preservation in 1989 and English Heritage dated parts of the structure back to the 17th century. Historical records go back as far as 1456, when a water bailiff held court hearings there. It was subsequently recorded as a public house in 1553. Its name most likely refers to the barrels used to pack and ship oysters. The Butt and Oyster is featured in the 1937 children's book ""We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea"" by Arthur Ransome,"
"shops with most connected to the port"". Found within this district, Liverpool's Sailors' Home, was designed to provide safe, inexpensive lodging for sailors, and to offer educational and recreational opportunities, in contrast to the temptations on offer in the docklands area. It was open for business in Canning Place, Liverpool, England, from December 1850 to July 1969. American writer Herman Melville describes Liverpool's sailortown in his semi-autobiographical novel ""Redburn"" (1849). London's Sailortown ""was clustered in a narrow strip of houses, taverns and slums on the north bank of the Thames, down river from the Tower of London, but also included"
"the George Orwell book The Road to Wigan Pier in which the author documents 1930's poverty in the north of England and argues his case for Socialism. The Road to Wakefield Pier includes live footage and interviews shot in Wakefield when the band played there at Warehouse23. They also completed a five-city UK tour with Spear of Destiny as well as a double headline St Valentine show with Department S and a repeat appearance at the Undercover Punk Festival. 2015 also saw headline shows in London, Munich and Augsburg, as well as five UK cities with Theatre of Hate and"
"theatrical troupe. In Patrick O'Brian's nautical historical Aubrey-Maturin series, Portsmouth is most often the port from which Captain Jack Aubrey's ships sail. Victorian novelist and historian Sir Walter Besant documented his childhood in the town in the 1840s in ""By Celia's Arbour: A Tale of Portsmouth Town"". The book is notable for its precise descriptions of the town before the defensive walls were removed. Southsea features in ""The History of Mr Polly"" by H. G. Wells under the fictional name of ""Port Burdock"", which he describes as ""one of the three townships that are grouped around the Port Burdock naval"
"seaport. In 1755 the Lisbon earthquake caused a tsunami to strike the Cornish coast over away. The sea rose in ten minutes at St Michael's Mount, ebbed at the same rate, and continued to rise and fall for five hours. The 19th-century French writer Arnold Boscowitz claimed that ""great loss of life and property occurred upon the coasts of Cornwall."" By 1811 there were fifty-three houses and four streets. The pier was extended in 1821 and the population peaked in the same year, when the island had 221 people. There were three schools, a Wesleyan chapel, and three public houses,"
"oyster-wives. The market is depicted during Tudor times in Rosemary Sutcliff's 1951 children's historical novel ""The Armourer's House"". The writer George Orwell worked at Billingsgate in the 1930s, as did the Kray twins in the 1950s. In 1982, the fish market was relocated to a new building complex on the Isle of Dogs in Poplar, close to Canary Wharf and Blackwall. The freehold owner of the site is the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, but the City of London Corporation still runs the market; they pay an annual ground rent stipulated in an agreement between the two councils as ""the"
"Clevedon Pier Clevedon Pier is a seaside pier in the town of Clevedon, Somerset, England on the east shore of the Severn Estuary. It has been described by Sir John Betjeman, as ""the most beautiful pier in England"" and was designated a Grade I listed building in 2001. The pier was built during the 1860s to attract tourists and provide a ferry port for rail passengers to South Wales. The pier is long and consists of eight spans supported by steel rails covered by wooden decking, with a pavilion on the pier head. The pier opened in 1869 and served"
"in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, and Victoria Canada and in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Moon Under Water ""The Moon Under Water"" is a 1946 essay by George Orwell, originally published as the Saturday Essay in the ""Evening Standard"" on 9 February 1946, in which he provided a detailed description of his ideal public house, the fictitious ""Moon Under Water"". It was Orwell's last contribution to the ""Evening Standard"". Orwell stipulated ten key points that his perfect pub in the London area should have (his criteria for country pubs being different, but unspecified): Orwell admitted that ""to be fair"", he did"
"a regular occurrence especially in the city centre that was at the bottom of a natural bowl. The River Don became one of the most polluted rivers in Europe. In his 1937 book ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" George Orwell said that Sheffield 'could justly claim to be called the ugliest town in the Old World'. However, in the 1930s Sheffield City Council and public benefactors such as J.G.Graves started buying rural land around Sheffield in order to protect it from developers. This was one of the earliest examples of greenbelt land. The residential areas cover the majority of the"
"Museum of Wigan Life The Museum of Wigan Life is a public museum and local history resource centre in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The nineteenth-century listed building is by the noted architect Alfred Waterhouse. It originally housed Wigan Library, where George Orwell researched his book ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" in 1936. The museum works with other museums in Greater Manchester as part of the Greater Manchester Museums Group (GMMG). The building which now houses the Museum of Wigan Life was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1878 as the town's first public library. Its construction was funded by"
"Pier Head The Pier Head (properly, George's Pier Head) is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool, England. It is part of the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was inscribed in 2004. As well as a collection of landmark buildings, recreational open space, and a number of memorials, the Pier Head was (and for some traffic still is) the landing site for passenger ships travelling to and from the city. By the 1890s the George's Dock, built in 1771, was essentially redundant. It was the third dock built in Liverpool, and was too small"
"Raasay, the setting for his best known poem, ""Hallaig"". George Orwell wrote much of the novel ""1984"" whilst living at Barnhill on Jura and J.M. Barrie wrote a screenplay for the 1924 film adaptation of ""Peter Pan"" whilst on Eilean Shona. Cressida Cowell, the author of ""How to Train Your Dragon"", spent childhood summers in the Inner Hebrides and has stated that they are ""one of the most beautiful places on Earth"" and ""the kind of place where you expect to see dragons overhead"". In some respects the Hebrides generally lack biodiversity in comparison to mainland Britain, with for example"
"from time to time until at least the time of Eileen's death. He had married his first wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy at the village church on 9 June 1936. Orwell wrote his notable book ""Animal Farm"" in 1944 probably much of it while he was at the village and certainly drew on his experiences there for inspiration, especially Manor Farm and The Great Barn. The farm in the village is, as in the book called Manor Farm. Other notable books that he wrote while he lived in the village include ""Homage to Catalonia"", and ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" (which he"
"Orwell, Cambridgeshire Orwell is a small rural village outside Cambridge in South Cambridgeshire, England. The Prime Meridian passes the eastern edge of Orwell. The village of Orwell grew around the well that gave it its name and the Roman road that runs to Cambridge runs alongside the village. Listed in the Domesday Book as ""Ordeuuella"", (""Ord Wella"", in Old English) the village's name means ""spring by a pointed hill"". The hill in question may be the natural one which lies behind St. Andrews Church. However, it is anything but pointed. There was once a man-made hill near to where the"