Rolling Stonemason

MOL.2025.15

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ID: Light brown hardback book called Rolling Stonemason. There is an inscription on the first page which reads: "To my younger Brother Bill, who too has "saw the light". From his affectionate Brother Fred Bower June 6/36. Heswall, Cheshire". The Rolling Stonemason is a book written by Fred Bower, which he gave to his brother Bil, on 6 June 1936. Fred Bower was born in 1872 and grew up in Liverpool. He trained as a stonemason like his father, and travelled widely around the world. In later life he lived in Heswall. Fred worked on major building projects including the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, and was a well-known socialist. In 1904 he buried copies of socialist newspapers in a biscuit tin in the Cathedral’s foundations, in the hole where King Edward VII would later lay the foundation stone.