When I Was a Child
Shaw, Charles D.![When I Was a Child](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/155/15554927/CHSBZCOP0315554927.jpg)
Charles Shaw was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire in 1832. When I Was A Child is an autobiographical account of his early life working in the pottery industry-first, at the age of seven, as a mould-runner, and later as a handle maker. He describes many incidents in his life, including a brief spell in the workhouse, a rare outing to Trentham, the Pottery Riots of 1842, and how he eventually became a local preacher. The book is a moving, first-h...