pump-maker's

Updated: May 7, 2025

Things wasn't doing so bad with me. Why, it's like yesterday to remember. My wife she come a-runnin' into the shop just before dinner-time. "There's a boiler busted at Walton's," she says, "an' they say as Mr. Trent's killed." It was Walton's, the pump-maker's, in Ground Street. 'It's Simpson & Thomas's now, remarked Mrs. Bower. 'Why, where Jim Candle works, you know, Mr. Hackroyd.

George Gissing - Thyrza