Alfred Williams (1) (1877–1930)
Author of Life in a Railway Factory
For other authors named Alfred Williams, see the disambiguation page.
Works by Alfred Williams
Round About Middle Thames: Glimpses of Rural Victorian Life (Transport/Waterways) (1992) 7 copies, 1 review
A Wiltshire village 3 copies
Poems in Wiltshire 2 copies
Songs in Wiltshire 1 copy
Cor Cordium 1 copy
War sonnets and songs 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1877-02-07
- Date of death
- 1930-04-10
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Ruskin Hall, Oxford
- Occupations
- farm labourer
railway factory worker
rivet hotter
furnace boy
drop stamper - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Places of residence
- South Marston, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Burial location
- South Marston, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Map Location
- UK
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Reviews
This book is hard going and takes some commitment to read. However it is intersting in its own way. It is not just a straight memoir, but also contains wider social comment and history.
Round About Middle Thames: Glimpses of Rural Victorian Life (Transport/Waterways) by Alfred Williams
Includes chapters on Besselsleigh, Appleton, Eynsham, Babcock Hythe and Stanton Harcourt, pp. 157-173. The Tumble-Down Dick inn near Cumnor and Besselsleigh are mentioned in Alfred Williams’s Round about Middle Thames. There was once a rhyme:
‘Richard and Dick went up the hill
And truly I engage
One was old and the other was young
And yet they were both of an age’.
‘Richard and Dick went up the hill
And truly I engage
One was old and the other was young
And yet they were both of an age’.
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- Works
- 11
- Members
- 64
- Popularity
- #264,967
- Rating
- 3.3
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 21