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Nicholas Freeston
Nicholas Freeston (1907-1978) was an English poet who spent most of his working life as a weaver in cotton mills near his home in Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire. He published five books of poetry, occasionally writing in Lancashire dialect, and won fifteen awards including a gold medal presented by the president of the United Poets' Laureate International. He was listed in the third edition of ''Who's Who in the World'' and appeared on television and radio reading his own work.〔Leaver, Eric. "Looms were mill poet's muse". ''Lancashire Evening Telegraph'' (Blackburn). 8 February 1978. Front page.〕 A UK national newspaper, the ''Daily Mirror'', called him the "Cotton Mill Bard"〔Gagie, Michael. "The man who cut his teeth on tears..." ''Daily Mirror'' (London). 18 December 1963〕 and the ''Lancashire Evening Telegraph'', the "Wordsworth of the Weaving Shed".〔
== Early life ==
Nicholas Freeston was born in Kendal, Westmorland in August 1907 and moved with his family to Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire, at the age of 8. One of ten children he started work in a cotton mill aged 12.〔 According to a ''Daily Mirror'' profile of the poet from 1963, the first verse of one of his poems captured the challenges of his early life:
:''"A silver spoon was never mine. I cut my teeth on tears. And all the things that men call fine have passed me down the years."''
He took a correspondence course in English during the economic depression of the 1930s when he was out of work for six years, but it was 1947 before his first poem was published.〔 The ''Lancashire Evening Telegraph'' described how he bolstered his learning by taking evening classes with the Workers' Educational Association and reading immense amounts of poetry.〔
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