From weavers' cottages, mines and factories to ships and services: a history of a Fisher family

Reference Number: PP/2607
Level of Description: Item
Title: From weavers' cottages, mines and factories to ships and services: a history of a Fisher family
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Fisher, Colin: Author
Date: 2009
Extent: Pages: 72
Description: A history of the author's family who originated in Bradford-on-Avon working in the woollen industry as broadloom weavers and who moved to Twerton near Bath in the nineteenth century. The history contains detailed information on the cloth mills/industry of Twerton, pp. 21-23, including photographs and Rules of the textile factory at Twerton in 1832, p. 65. For information on Bath Gas Works see pp. 42-43
Subject: Genealogy
Mills
Textile industry