Story of Whitby Jet. Its workers from earliest times
Details:
- Author(s) Kendall, Hugh P
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1936
- Pages 26pp; illus
- Publisher Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society
- Place Published Whitby
Topics:
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with origins of use of jet; 'What is jet?'; jet extraction; manufacturers; carvers; foremen; workers; health issues; apprentices. Much based on recollections of a Mr Matthew Snowdon, then aged 75