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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

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

"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

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