1 Preamble v2

The story of Industrial changes during the early 19th century, the people and their lives and homes

Preamble

In the 1800's many changes occurred in people's life; Many previous hand craft skills became mechanized.

It was a time for speculation and investment. Fortunes were made; and lost, when projects failed to match the promises made, or, at times; never took of when unscrupulous persons, simply took the money and disappeared, with it.

Transport was being improved with steam driven vehicles and railways to transport goods around the country. Existing villages were extended to the size of towns. With the factories built by the streams, houses were built around the factories; often the factory owners had domestic premises built alongside or within the factory buildings. Eventually factory owners and managers built homes on the slopes and higher ground

In the textile industry several small firms set up to provide a single product from scouring the raw wool to spinning; dyeing; weaving and finishing the woven cloth

This often led to delays and variation of the end product.

New firms opened where they combined all the various stages into one firm where they bought the raw wool completed the whole process including sales of the finished cloth on one site

One such was Worth's {Worth; Ward and Stubley} (Worth's were small farmers/ land owners: Ward They used their knowledge of the Yorkshire Dales farmers to buy the best quality fleece

Blacksmiths & engineers; Stubley were well known small holders {weavers/ farmers})

They used their knowledge of the Yorkshire Dales farmers to buy the best quality fleece

Ward selected & modified machinery to suit their needs; taking on and training staff for their operation. Plus a team of engineers who specialized in each type of machine.

Reviews

[barleygirl]

Everything well-detailed & interesting & clear, as always with your exposés. When I read this line: "This often led to delays and variation of the end product" -- I'm left wondering why? or what does this matter? Later I see you explain the remedy, but you don't really explain the problem & it's mystifying why this would be the case. There's another thing that could be mentioned to put life into perspective . . . people used to WEAR WOOL! This isn't the case anymore, so it would be nice to spend a moment explaining how people dressed & why it was different. You come from northern climes, so maybe it's colder & wool is still worn there, but it hasn't been worn here in a few decades due to synthetics being lighter & not prone to moth-eaten holes. Just some ideas. I have a hard time remembering to include enuf details myself when I explain something like this becuz I'm seeing a picture in my mind, but I forget I have to show this to my reader, too! *wink! wink!* Hope you're doing well . . . sounds like you're writing more, so maybe you're getting back to yourself again!?!? (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Wild Rose]

Have to check it out > I think there was a tax on cotton from America so wool was the only fibre to make yarn with
Nylon was new when I was a youngster - terylene was new when I started work - we had an experimental production plant where I worked

Well slowly getting there they are reducing the tablet strength

[Just Kim]

this is quite interesting, i like this

[Wild Rose]

Thank you Kim
I have to check details > Like later I want them to travel over the hills to Manchester
Thirty miles away across the moors > We can jump in the car and say one hour (allowing for the city traffic) the only transport was a stagecoach > Stop to change / rest horses often alight to walk up steep grades - No telephones or even the post was all private firms
We lived in one of the street houses built for the workers who left the farms to work in the factories - in fact my maternal gran was related to the firm that built them
Hope you will read on (as and when)