The Road to Wigan Pier - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора George Orwell (ч. notes)

Notes

1

From the Colliery Tear Book and Coal Trades Directory for 1935.

2

In Orwell time one pound (£) was equal to 20 shillings (s.) and one shilling was equal to 12 pence (d.). England converted their currency system to decimal one (1 pound = 100 pence) between July 1967 and January 1971 (in several stages). — Comment by Dag.

3

The Coal Scuttle. The Colliery Yew Book end Coal Trades Directory gives a slightly higher figure.

4

The number of Corporation houses in process of construction in Sheffield at the beginning of 1936 was 1398. To replace the slum areas entirely Sheffield is said to need 100,000 houses.

5

For instance, a recent census of the Lancashire cotton mills revealed the fact that over 40,000 full-time employees receive less than thirty shillings a week each. In Preston, to take only one town, the number receiving over thirty shillings a week was 640 and the number receiving wider thirty shillings was 3113.

6

According to Chesterton, dirtiness is merely a kind of ‘discomfort’ and therefore ranks as self-mortification. Unfortunately, the discomfort of dirtiness is chiefly suffered by other people. It is not really very uncomfortable to be dirty — not nearly so uncomfortable as having a cold bath on a winter morning.

7

Orwell somewhat retracted this remark later. See ‘Inside the Whale’, England Your England, P. 120 (Seeker & Warburg Collected Edition).

8

For example: Some years ago someone invented a gramophone needle that would last for decades. One of the big gramophone companies bought up the patent rights, and that was the last that was ever beard of it.