The Golden Master

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The Golden Master

The loom did not rest, and neither did the debt, which hung over our cottage in Ashford like a low-hanging cloud of coal smoke. I was twelve years old in the winter of 1912, a junior apprentice at the Halloway Textile Mill, where the air was thick with the scent of wet wool and machine oil. My father, Thomas Bradshaw, lay in the bed with a cough that rattled in his chest like loose gravel, and...

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