From: "William Black" 
Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y uk.education.misc uk.education.schools-it uk.finance uk.food+drink.misc uk.food+drink.real-ale
Subject: Re: 10 Reasons to go veggie
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:41:58 +0100


"John Cartmell"  wrote in message
news:4e6b8adb23john@cartmell.demon.co.uk...
> In article ,
>    William Black  wrote:
> > Why do you think all those country folk rushed to the urban areas to
work in
> > the mills if life in the countryside was a 'Hodge and Podge' idyll?
>
> Because the income of a handloom weaver fell by 70% between 1800 and 1820.
His
> only option was to follow the work even if that led to Back Blacow Street
and
> Back Leeming Street, Preston for people like Thomas Cartmell and Roger
> Cartmell who previously lived in the countryside in Ribchester parish.

The destruction  of the 'domestic' weaving industry was inevitable with the
mechanisation of the weaving process.

Or perhaps you have an alternative?

-- 
William Black

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.