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A lyrical evocation of pre-industrial Calderdale
END OF AN EPOCH: The earliest known image of a cotton mill dates to 1746. Mills like this one - converted from a corn mill in Northampton - proliferated through the valleys of Calderdale
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Where the Skylark Sings
By Lee Garratt
Dimensionfold Publishing, £12.99
IN THIS slim novel, Lee Garratt takes us on a historical journey through the hills and valleys of Calderdale in Yorkshire and introduces us to the people who lived there.
He begins in 1790, and through the lives of one weaving family, he charts the devastating destruction of the old-style cottage weaving industry with the coming of mass production mills during the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Despite the attempts of the cottage weaving families in the area to prevent the mills destroying their livelihoods and way of life, the inexorable march of the wealthy mill owners is relentless.
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