The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists Traditional Cache
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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
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You cannot access this cache from Hornby road, please do not climb the fence into this farm, you must enter the grounds of Rice Lane City Farm off Rawcliffe Road in Walton. The farm is open seven days a week between the hours of 1000 and 1500. This cache has been placed with the consent of the farm manager, who has asked that as this is a working farm that all gates are closed after use. Whilst you are there why not have a wander around the nature trail. This is a great cache for geosprogs!!!
This Cache is located in Walton Cemetery near to the grave of Thomas Noonan who under the pseudonym Thomas Tressell wrote a book called the Ragged-trousered Philantropists. Based on his own experiences of poverty and exploitation, Noonan embarked on a detailed and scathing analysis of the relationship between working-class people and their employers. The "philanthropists" of the title are the workers who, in Noonan's view, are happy to be exploited in the interests of their bosses. The original title page of the book carried the subtitle: "Being the story of twelve months in Hell, told by one of the damned, and written down by Robert Tressell". He completed The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists in 1910, but the 1,600-page hand-written manuscript was rejected by the three publishing houses to which it was submitted. The rejections severely depressed Noonan and his daughter Kathleen had to save the manuscript from being burnt. She placed it for safekeeping in a metal box underneath her bed. After Noonan died of tuberculosis, Kathleen was determined to have her father's writing published and showed it to a friend, the writer Jessie Pope. Pope recommended the book to her own publisher, who bought the rights in April 1914 for £25. It was published that year in much abridged form in the United Kingdom and in an even more abridged form (90,000 words, from the original 250,000), in 1918. It was also published in Canada and the United States in 1914, in the Soviet Union in 1920, and in Germany in 1925. Noonan's original ending was not published until 1955, Writing in the Manchester Evening News in April 1946 George Orwell praised the book's ability to convey without sensationalism "the actual detail of manual work and the tiny things almost unimaginable to any comfortably situated person which make life a misery when one's income drops below a certain level". He considered it "a book that everyone should read" and a piece of social history that left one "with the feeling that a considerable novelist was lost in this young working-man whom society could not bother to keep alive." http://www.raggedtrousered.com/ http://ricelanecityfarm.org.uk/
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