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Clog Shop Chronicles by John Ackworth
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 sto...
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Episodes
01 - An atonement 02.01.2026 22:27
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02 - Billy Botch 01.01.2026 33:05
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03 - Hanging his hat up 31.12.2025 30:32
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04 - Giving a man away 30.12.2025 20:42
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05 - Tatty Entwhistle's return 29.12.2025 25:28
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06 - Coals of fire 28.12.2025 21:35
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07 - The knocker up 27.12.2025 22:07
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08 - For better or worse: The dilemma 26.12.2025 20:40
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09 - For better or worse: The denouement 25.12.2025 18:46
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10 - 'Bullet' pie 24.12.2025 24:49
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11 - A diplomatic reverse 23.12.2025 21:26
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12 - Vaulting ambition: 1 The o'erleaping 22.12.2025 23:53
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13 - Vaulting ambition: 2 Alighting 21.12.2025 22:43
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14 - Zeal of thine house: 1 'When Greek meets Greek' 20.12.2025 21:08
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15 - Zeal of thine house: 2 'To be, or not to be' 19.12.2025 18:27
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16 - Zeal of thine house: 3 'Of his necessity' 18.12.2025 22:39
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17 - Zeal of thine house: 4 Raising the wind 17.12.2025 23:02
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18 - Zeal of thine house: 5 At last! 16.12.2025 18:24
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