The Journal of William Brazear covers the life of this remarkable man from the death of his father in the late nineteenth century, leaving himself and many brothers and sisters to be raised by their mother, Johanna, who could not cope.
It tells how he walked with a friend from London to Wales because he heard there was work to be had. They two of them walked all that way with nothing, begging leftovers from factory workers as they left work.
It was written I presume for his own satisfaction at the time and was passed down through the family, handwritten and very difficult to read. I transcribed it and added some photographs, but apart from that it is all his own own.
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