Manchester, Fourteen Miles

by Margaret Penn

Book Overview

Manchester Fourteen Miles was the inscription on the signpost outside 'Moss Ferry', the village where 'Hilda Winstanley' grew up before the First World War. The seemingly short distance from the capital of England's cotton industry was nonetheless the distance between one world and another. 'Moss Ferry' was a village which belonged to the old agricultural order, that is before cotton arrived. It had hardly changed, economically or socially for hundreds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521280656
• ISBN13: 9780521280655
• Release Date: April 1981
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"