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Micks and Machines
This quote is from the first annual report of the CDB, written in 1892, by William Lawson Micks (see this link too). “The aiding and developing of spinning, weaving, knitting, and other industrial...
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An Experiment
Nicolas Grimshaw, ‘Father of the Belfast Cotton Industry’. On 11 November, 1778, Grimshaw received the thanks of the Belfast Charitable Society, who were directors of the local poorhouse. This was...
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Swiftly Turn The Murmuring Wheel
Did you know that in around 1806, William Wordsworth (aka “Daffodil Man“, 1770-1850) wrote … this? Song for the Spinning Wheel Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel! Night has brought the welcome hour,...
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The Junior Spinning Champion of Ireland and the Entente Cordiale
Front page of Le Petit Journal, 20 August 1905. On the 8th of April 1904, the United Kingdom and the French Republic signed the Entente Cordiale. This set of agreements essentially formalized the...
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The Most An Attentive Spinster Could Earn
Photo source. The 1830s decline of the cotton, linen, and wool industries coincided with the Poor Law Commissions, a series of inquiries which were intended to shape the Poor Law Act of 1838. In Mayo,...
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Crooning, and Moaning, and Drowsily Knitting
Photo source. Some time around 1853 (this is the date of the issue where he published a version in the Dublin University Magazine), probably in Dublin, John Francis Waller wrote this: A SPINNING-WHEEL...
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