Part 1. Tom …..... Pinder, ... Foundling. (A Story of the Holmfirth Flood.) * by D.F.E. Sykes, LL.B. * Price one penny _______________ Slaithwaite: F. Walker, Commercial and Artistic printer, Britannia Works. 2,000/2/06 Later published under the title Dorothy's Choice About the author D F E Sykes was a gifted scholar, solicitor, local politician, and newspaper proprietor. He listed his own patrimony as ‘Fred o’ Ned’s o’ Ben o’ Billy’s o’ the Knowle’ a reference to Holme village above Slaithwaite in the Colne Valley. As the grandson of a clothier, his association with the woollen trade would be a valuable source of material for his novels, but also the cause of his downfall when, in 1883, he became involved in a bitter dispute between the weavers and the mill owners. When he was declared bankrupt in 1885 and no
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