9773 - The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang

NEWMAN Sue

Who they Were ? What they did ? How they lived ?

Making fuse chains - and the other ways, legal and illegal, that thew wold was kept from the cottage doors of Christchurch, 1700 - 1900. A study of poverty and survival and bygone trades. With major new discoveries about the watch industry, and the characters who inhabited this small town.