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Shoddy and Mungo
Description of the shoddy and mungo industries of West Yorkshire and the author's family connections to that process. The final post in a four section sequence about the wool industry of the West Riding.
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Tragic Fire at Atkinson’s Mill, Colne Bridge…Subsequent Factories Acts
Account of a tragic mill fire in a cotton mill, that shook the nation and contributed to the first change in the law in the employment of children.
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Richard Wilson’s Long Walk
Richard Wilson of Ossett's long walk to sell his woollen cloth at Leeds Cloth Market.
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George Archer at Passchendaele
Account of one man's war - how a soldier in a Bantam Battalion found himself at Passchendael.
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The Hemingway Family of the Walterclough, Southowram…and a Brontë Connection
The origins of the Hemingway family in Southowram and a connection with the writing of Emily Bronte.
