Jack William Jones

Jack William Jones, born 1900: War & Memory

The mention of the First World War and its association with the life of Jack William Jones is evidenced throughout his memoir. …

My author Jack William Jones, born in 1900 in East End London, began writing his memoir post-retirement as a London busman, towards the …

I can vaguely remember my schooling. Schooling? A joke! A joke in bad taste might be a better description [1] Jack was …

From the very beginning of his memoir Jack details the history of the London bus sector over a period of 15 years …

At the beginning of the 20th century poverty was regarded as the natural condition of the labouring poor, those who worked with …

According to David Vincent in his journal Love and Death and the Nineteenth-Century Working Class the ‘poverty and unreliability of much of …

Jack William Jones’ memoir, despite delivering a few small anecdotes from his childhood and personal life, is predominantly a recollection of a …

As discussed in the Part 1, Jack remembers many of the political strikes and protests of the early 20th Century London, ‘In …

All in all, it seemed to be a good life, a simple life. The hard part was to come later.[1] This quotation …