Hello list, I enjoyed reading "The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton". Thanks for the tip. Any of the Bolton listers who have ancestors who worked as children in the cotton mills will want to read a book called "The Real Oliver Twist", written by John Waller, historian and lecturer at Melbourne University, Australia. It is the non-fiction account of the life of Robert Blincoe, workhouse boy, who was apprenticed the the mills in Lancashire. His years of unrelenting abuse and near starvation make for some very difficult reading and a greater appreciation of what our ggg grandparents went through. Bolton gets a share of ink time. Let me know what you think of it. Cheers, Joyce in Victoria