Henry Twist
Twist was born at Platt Bridge, near Wigan, Lancashire, and after primary education at the local Wesleyan School, began employment at Bamfurlong coal mine at the age of eleven.
[1] At the age of thirty he became a checkweighman at the mine, having also been elected to the Wigan Rural District Council.
In 1906 he succeeded Sam Woods as the area's agent for the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation, and was the organisation's vice-president in 1929.
However he was forced to retire due to ill health and did not stand at the subsequent election in 1923.
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Henry Twist, third from left, with Henry Roughley, Thomas Greenall and
John McGurk
visiting the
Western Front
in World War I, believed to be discussing mining under enemy lines