Book cover for The Miner by F.C. Boden

The Derbyshire market town of Chesterfield is captured by F. C Boden who created quite a literary stir in the early 1930’s. In his 1932 novel Miner “The red and yellow tram-car came clanging back from Brampton, muddier and wetter than ever, and, above all, tram and everything, with dark fingers on white face, the market hall clock chimed.....and at that instant, hooters and hummers and whistles on all sides joined in a shrill discordance.....and from the gates of factories, potteries, ironworks and breweries men and women and boys and girls poured forth....Chesterfield was at dinner.”