Talk:William Woodruff

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 * I'd love a reference for the bit that reads "Vessel of Sadness, which has been called one of the most original, convincing and powerful stories about man and war that has ever been written". 81.135.12.203 Sliggy 20:00, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

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The article could use some more tweaking, including a description of when The Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End became surprise bestsellers. Much of the article currently draws from the Daily Telegraph page, even though more references are available, including. In case the references "disappear" or are not available on the Internet Archive, I have taken the liberty of archiving the pages using WebCite: see     Regards, --Jh12 (talk) 20:31, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP The best-seller story is covered here: A feature article on William Woodruff, by Michael Ellison, was published in The Guardian of January 25, 2001. It was called: "Not bad for a weaver's son" and it can be found at

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,427863,00.html

--Woodruff (talk) 23:03, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

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I have moved this material from the main page, as it is inappropriate there.

"EDIT by planap I have some problems with Woodruff's account of his life at St Peter's School and elsewhere in Blackburn. Both my brother and I attended St Peter's after he did, we knew several of the characters in his book but some of the street names are unknown to us even though we lived in the same area of the town. Also, the book title is a mystery. There is/never was a Nab End in Blackburn. 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. There used to be a Nab Lane off Montague Street near to the town centre but this does not fit the title either." --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 09:55, 26 August 2013 (UTC)