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Clog Shop Chronicles

Clog Shop Chronicles

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Number of Chapters: 18

Length: 6 hours and 51 minutes

Language: English

John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Clog Shop Chronicles was the first and most successful of his works. Set in the fictional 19th-century village of Beckside (said to be somewhere between Manchester and Bolton), the book consists of 12 tales of everyday life in a close-knit Methodist community, which continue into Beckside Lights (1897) and Doxy Dent (1899). Based on an entertaining group of characters who gather round the clog shop fire, the stories are sentimental at times, but Ackworth has a nice sense of irony and refrains from Methodist proselytizing. Ackworth was also a student of the Lancashire dialect and the spoken passages in his books are mostly written in a phonetic version of late 19th-century Bolton speech, which I have done my best to reproduce. (Summary by Phil Benson)

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01 - An atonement (Phil Benson)
02 - Billy Botch (Phil Benson)
03 - Hanging his hat up (Phil Benson)
04 - Giving a man away (Phil Benson)
05 - Tatty Entwistle's return (Phil Benson)
06 - Coals of fire (Phil Benson)
07 - The knocker up (Phil Benson)
08 - For better or worse: The dilemma (Phil Benson)
09 - For better or worse: The denouement (Phil Benson)
10 - "Bullet" pie (Phil Benson)
11 - A diplomatic reverse (Phil Benson)
12 - Vaulting ambition: The o'erleaping (Phil Benson)
13 - Vaulting ambition: Alighting (Phil Benson)
14 - The zeal of thine house: "When Greek meets Greek" (Phil Benson)
15 - The zeal of thine house: "To be, or not to be" (Phil Benson)
16 - The zeal of thine house: "Of his necessity" (Phil Benson)
17 - The zeal of thine house: Raising the wind (Phil Benson)
18- The zeal of thine house: At last! (Phil Benson)
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