Bucket on t' Stairs is the story of a deaf kid growing up in the poverty of West Yorkshire in the 1950s and 1960s in a one-up, one-down house in industrial Batley. He got his first hearing aid at eight and moved from bottom to top of his class. He was awarded a place at Batley Boys Grammar School without having to take the 11-plus examination. He graduated from Reading University and spent his working life as an Environmental Health Officer. Many of his legislative innovations were adopted nationally by the British Government.Of the book, Neil says, "I tell my story in Yorkshire dialect. That...
Bucket on t' Stairs is the story of a deaf kid growing up in the poverty of West Yorkshire in the 1950s and 1960s in a one-up, one-down house in indus...
