Pryce Jones and the Welsh Wool Trade
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Pryce Pryce Jones - inventor of the first sleeping bag.
Eddie Butler explains how ground breaking Newtown based Pryce Pryce Jones' wool business expanded, including the invention of the first sleeping bag and production of the world's first mail order catalogue.
From:
Wales and the History of the World ; Trade and Industry
First broadcast
:
10 March 2010
Teachers' notes
Age Group : 11-14
Subject : History
Topic : Industrial Wales and Britain
Keywords : Wool industry, Newtown, Sleeping bag, Mail order, Inventors of Wales, Pryce Pryce Jones
Notes : For further study, see Mail Order Catalogue and Sleeping Bag Invention.
