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Worktown Collection (1937-40)
Box 40: Book drafts; textile workers; collieries
40/A Book drafts
"Work", ts, 23pp
"Work", ts, 19pp
"Work", ts, 24pp
"Work", ts, 34pp
40/B Mill work
Untitled document, ms, 117pp, 11.37, PB, detailed observations at Musgrave's Spinning Company
Letter from [PB] to THH, ms, 1p, enclosing "Lancashire", ms, 4pp, [PB], notes on the cotton industry
- Observer accounts
- "Cobden Mill, Draycott Street, Bolton", ms, 5pp,
5.4.-17.4.[?], PB
- Untitled document, ms, 8pp, [PB]
- "Carder's Notes", ms, 1p, [PB], list
- "B & Co Mill, Davenport St.", ms, 3pp, 22.4.[?], WH
- "Mosscroft, Chorley Old Road", ms, 11pp, 25.4.[?], [WH]
- "Analysis of Jobs", ms, 3pp
- Untitled document, ms, 14pp, various aspects of mill work
- Untitled document, ms, 8pp, [PB]
40/C Psychometry and anthropometry
- Paper folder containing
- Untitled document, ts/ms, 45pp, evolution of the
human race i.e. physical appearances different 'races', includes some charts
- Untitled document, ts, 17pp, as above
- Untitled document, ts/ms, 9pp, the differences between groups i.e. English or French
- Untitled document, ts/ms, 7pp, as above
- Untitled document, ts, 17pp, as above
"Bolton figures from census returns 1931", ts, 1p, (no source cited)
"Middle Class", ts, 1p, statistical data on employment
"List of industries", ts, 2pp, statistical data on areas of male and female employment
"Details of Industries", ts, 2pp, statistical data on different employment in industry
Misc, ts, 6pp
Magazine cuttings (2)
Misc, ts, 2pp torn from book
40/D Textile workers
Booklet: The Struggle of the Lancashire Textile Workers
"Lancashire at the Crossroads", ts, 2pp, a synopsis
"Notes from a conversation with Bert Fulham", ts, 1p, 26.7[?], THH
"The Industrial Depression in the Urban Districts of Aspull, Blackrod, Hindley, Horwich and Westhoughton", ts, 8pp, 10.36, a memorandum by Mr Rhys J. Davies, MP and submitted to the House of Commons
"Flyleaf", ts, 1p, quote from Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove, II, pp229, London 1929
Index cards (2), ms , reference to mills
Misc, ms/ts, 3pp
Newspaper cuttings (6)
Magazine cuttings "Child into Industry", The Listener, 27.4.38; "Cotton - What Next?", The Listener, 27.4.38; "Lancashire Cotton Results", The Investors' Chronicle, 8.1.38
40/E Textile workers
- Observer accounts
- "Report on questions to Piecers & Spinners", ms,
5pp
- "A mother-in-law story", ms, 2pp, about a spinner and his mother-in-law who was living with him and his wife
- "Friday Hardcastle", ms, 3pp, 25.6.[?], WH, visit to a mill
- "Swan Lane Spinning Mills", ms, 8pp, AR
- "Conversation in the park", ms, 3pp, 5.7.[?], DMH
- "Surprise visit to Swan Lane Spinning Mills", ms, 13pp, 7.7.[?], DMH
- "A mother-in-law story", ms, 2pp, about a spinner and his mother-in-law who was living with him and his wife
40/F Collieries
- Observer account
- "Outlook at Ince Moss Colliery", ms, 10pp, 18.5.[?],
WH
- Index card (1), ms, reference to pit work
Daily Worker, newspaper, 11.5.38
Newspaper cuttings (2)
40/G Radio programme
"Cotton", ts/ms, 31pp, THH, 1937, script for BBC radio programme on the cotton industry