THE WATER-SPINNERS
Written by Chris Aspin
Published by Helmshore Local History Society
in 2003
ISBN: 0906881137
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- INDUSTRY
- INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
- HISTORY
- TEXTILES
- INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
- LANCASHIRE
THE WATER-SPINNERS
Written by Chris Aspin.
Stock no. 1828020
1st.
2003.
Softcover.
Slightly better than very good condition.
A new look at the early cotton trade. A history of the cotton mill, the thousands who laboured for long hours, the nimble fingers of young children that kept the water-frames that spun the thread constantly in motion. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos, illustrations and maps. ISBN: 0906881137. Light vertical crease to spine, spine lightly faded. Text block a little grubby. Name and date in ink to front endpaper.One instance of annotation in ink to margin of page 253 else contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- The quest begins
- Arkwright's impact
- Pioneers
- Making a Start
- "New and curious machinery"
- Unforseen problems
- Greater Manchester
- The Peels
- The Pennines
- The River Darwen
- Bolton to Preston
- Wyresdale and Brock Bottoms
- The Lune Valley
- Mills by the sea
- Literary interlude
- South Cumbria and the Isle of Man
- Settle and Skipton
- The Dales
- List of Mills
- Appendix 1: Colquhoun's census
- Appendix 2: The cotton trade in 1797
- Appendix 3: An apprentice girl's story
- Bibliography
- Index