Wallotty Trot
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A Household Words article that opens with an Irish folk tale of Wallotty Trot, a Rumpelstiltskin-like story in which a mysterious old man teaches a princess the spinning wheel. It then surveys the history of spinning, the old domestic system of wool and cotton manufacture in Norfolk, Yorkshire and Lancashire, and the arrival of factories. The article describes a Lancashire cotton mill, Marshall's flax mill at Leeds, and the Bradford alpaca and mohair mill being built by Titus Salt at Saltaire, with its planned workers' town.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1853
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
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