By Gum, Life Were Sparse!: Memories of the Northern Mill Towns
By W. R. Mitchell.
Description
Growing up in the Yorkshire Dales, the author witnessed the last great flourish of the northern textile towns. King cotton ruled, wool barons amassed huge fortunes, and in the shadow of the giant red-brick mills workers eked out a life of grinding poverty, of long hours toiling in conditions that would today be criminal, of cramped quarters in mean houses with too many mouths to feed. Yet shining through the hardship was the dry humour and the spirit of those workers, and in this nostalgic book the author evokes the essence of the times. He tells of the maisters and weyvers, of home and str...
ISBN(s)
0751500186, 9780751500189
