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The Recollections of a Royton Girl : Elizabeth Shirt

Crumpton, John
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The biography of Elizabeth Crumpton, nee Shirt, born at Low Crompton, Oldham in 1913. The Shirt family were bleachers, cotton operatives in the Lancashire cotton industry. Chapters include: Street Vendors, Church and Sunday school, Shopping in the 1920s, Royton Wakes, Annual Camp. Elizabeth married Abel Crumpton in 1939. They belonged to the Barbican Mission to the Jews. They organised faith youth camps at Morecambe, and later moved to Canada. Elizabeth died in 2010.
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