Through the mill: The life of a mill-boy - Paperbackby Al Priddy (Author) " My tenth birthday was celebrated in northern England, almost within hailing distance of the Irish Sea. Chaddy Ashworth, the green grocer's son, helped me eat the birthday cake, with the ten burnt currants on its buttered top. As old Bill Scroggs was wont to boast: "Hadield was in the right proper place, it being in the best shire in the Kingdom. Darby shir (Derbyshire) is where Mr. George Eliot (only he said 'Helliot') got his