Also on cover: A mission of sharing and caring during the Great Depression. During the Depression years many people who were unable to afford firewood, visited dumps at the numerous boot and shoe factories in the district to collect leather skives - generally in 70 lb. hessian sugar bags or "gunny sacks" as they often were called. This fuel was called "Collingwood Coke".

Skives are leather off-cuts from hides and dressed leather from which the various components of footwear have been cut - i.e. soles, heel lifts, vamps, uppers and toe caps ... (From the introduction).