Description
Illustrated with numerous b/w photographs and drawings, the author describes life working as a 13 year old youth and man treading the oily floor of a mule wheelgate, in Bolton in Lancashire, at the time of the Great War. Here is in an insight to the running of a Lancashire cotton mill, with chapters covering such subjects as piecing, creeling, doffing, cleaning and oiling the machines, bands and belts, and more.
Condition:
The card covers are in very good condition, clean, with slight fading to the spine surround and a light crease to the rear bottom corner.
The binding is secure and very tight.
The interior is in very good condition.
I Trod a Wheelgate
By
Bob Porter
- Publisher: Bolton Museum, 1988
- Softcover
- ISBN 090658521X
- First edition
- 8 x 8 in.
- 72 pages
