He spent the next seven years working in a local textile mill.

Salts textile mill began operation two years later and its brick tower still overlooks the village.

He attended school until he was 11 years old, and then became employed in a textile mill, where he was later promoted to machinist.

It was also the first successful textile mill in the area.

In 1975, during the recovery and adaptation works of the building, archaeological remains of the old textile mill were discovered.