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The journeys of George Orwell (1903-1950) through the mining towns of the northern part of England are described in his novel The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). In Wigan, Orwell visited many houses where workers lived and made detailed notes on living conditions and wages. He went down to the Bryn Hall coal mine and read reports on working conditions in the mines and workers' medical records. These notes were included in the first part of the book as a kind of sociological research into the living and working conditions of the working class in industrial cities between the First and Second World Wars. But Orwell doesn't just present dry facts and figures, he describes the work in the mine, the miners, and the poor people's homes in such detail and imagery that the reader may feel as if he himself had been there with the author . "I was born in a society that can be considered the lower middle class," he ironically said about his social position.