It all started here in a beautiful green river valley in the heart of the English countryside; and here lies the cradle of the modern industrial world where man took his first giant steps in its birth by transferring cotton production from the spinning wheel to the cotton mill.
This novel is a fiction based on fact following the fortunes of the Evans family who established one of the first mechanised cotton mills in the world. The event changed forever the lives of the Evans and everyone who came to work in the mill as well as the village associated with it. The mill became the focal point of their lives, the source for rich and poor alike of dreams and triumphs, tragedies and despair, everyone a pioneer on a voyage of invention, exploration and discovery in a whole new world.
Threads of Gold is only the beginning in a series of novels following the progress of the Evans, the mill and all involved with it.
It all started here in a beautiful green river valley in the heart of the English countryside; and here lies the cradle of the modern industrial world where man took his first giant steps in its birth by transferring cotton production from the spinning wheel to the cotton mill.
This novel is a fiction based on fact following the fortunes of the Evans family who established one of the first mechanised cotton mills in the world. The event changed forever the lives of the Evans and everyone who came to work in the mill as well as the village associated with it. The mill became the focal point of their lives, the source for rich and poor alike of dreams and triumphs, tragedies and despair, everyone a pioneer on a voyage of invention, exploration and discovery in a whole new world.
Threads of Gold is only the beginning in a series of novels following the progress of the Evans, the mill and all involved with it.