I have just contributed a two-part guest article to the Reading Sheffield web-site. Sheffield was the only city in which Walter Greenwood’s novel appeared as a serial in a local paper, and the only city where the novel and a production of the play version were in the public eye at the same time, during 1935.
See:
https://www.readingsheffield.co.uk/love-on-the-dole-in-sheffield-a-unique-story-part-one/
https://www.readingsheffield.co.uk/love-on-the-dole-in-sheffield-a-unique-story-part-two/
– Best wishes Chris Hopkins
Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole 