Bob's Mill Diary - May 5, 2012, from France
Just reading the paper and there is an article on Bradshaw (Railway Timetables) which states that in 1863 there were 20,000,000 spindles in 1,000 factories with 300,000 hands, 90,000 horsepower moving 1,000,000 power looms in the Manchester area. And we were just a little bit of that!!
I'll get back to my wine now having just cooked and eaten probably the best entrecote steak I've ever had.....