Hard Times By Gerald Schofield; The Cotton Famine; George Burnett's Diary 1862-1863; Cotton Industry 18th to 20th Century . Discover (and save!) There was a wide discrepancy in the bids received, so we took the highest. Turning round, he saw the haycart discharging a mixed load of manacled prisoners with their attendant detectives, this being the only way they could get through the town without interference. The rioters threw stones and the Danish soldiers retaliated with gunfire. Laborers were forbidden from leaving their plantations without written permission from the plantation owner. To buy in looms and factories would have been bad enough. the weaving sheds to a tufted carpet machine company which did not last very long. 40 M.A.R.D. The price of raw cotton had greatly increased, and poor crops in America kept the price up for several years after. The riots also stood by Trump throughout the presidential election, forcing calculations among some Republicans who primarily allowed false attacks on … The garment is usually white, often bordered in brightly coloured stripes. Lancashire 1878. The difference in preparation costs was never more than guess work and usually ignored altogether. Discover (and save!) The coarser varieties are often of irregular yarns and textures, bleached, unbleached, or piece-dyed and are generally finished by the application of sizing. © United Utilities - terms and conditions. The recession had set in and it was decided to stop the shed while floor and respacing were carried out. Riots in the Lancashire cotton districts. It was cheaper than buying new ones! Major Samuel Kinghan was our Belfast agent from 1909, one of the earliest records surviving, until he died in 1940, when his brother-in-law Balfour McGown took it over, joined in 1954 by his son Melville. E. & G. Hindle held shares in "The Artificial Silk Spinning Co Ltd" in 1898, and Chardonnet Silk Co Ltd in 1900. The second partner (14) was Charles Walter Haythornthwaite. 1874; 1875; 1876; 1877; 1878; 1879; 1880; 1881; 1882; 1883; 1884 To satisfy the authorities in 1959 we would have to spend about £6000 between Bastfield and Swallow St. At the Harrogate conference in October 1958 the Prime Minister told a small committee that any scheme the industry thought up, barring tariffs, would have his support. He mortgaged it to Charles Peel in 1888 and conveyed it in 1890. They were glad to see it go. The whole assets with the exception of the buildings had been converted to cash, government bonds and short term loans, and Royal Mill was practically sold (39). Similar schemes were drawn up for spinning and doubling and finishing, though the finishers intimated that they had little or no redundant machinery. (33) The shareholders could not sell their shares without the approval of the directors for both price and purchaser. A lot of the trade had been quite happy before they came into being. Unfortunately twelve months later when we had the floor finished, the slump had not lessened, and there was no justification for starting up the 625 looms the respaced shed would hold and restarting the engine. Sundry stocks were small and cleared fairly well, including a small mountain of fents (37) out of the sample cupboard. There was a big demand and a general upset of trading conditions, as was to be expected. At the same time Mr Harral, a mill manager, got £50 as Christmas bonus. These were briefly, Bastfield and Royal Mills, lease of Swallow St, and Bankfield Mill from G. Hindle. It is used to deflect the warp to either side of the main sheet of fabric. Bastfield Mill was subject to ground rent, with certain conditions of maintenance. Frank and Herbert went into the business and Walter became a Chartered Accountant in Manley, Haythornthwaite & Co (John Norris's (11) grandmother was a Haythornthwaite, Grace's sister). We joined a mutual aid rayon export scheme, bulk loom-fodder orders, minor fault complaints vetoed, cutprice yarn, weaving, finishing, and merchanting. Swallow St Top Shed needed respacing and a decision was taken in July '52. This was possible for several reasons, manufacturing efficiency being the least. 39 Deccan Riots Report, Appendix C, Statement on pp. (6) The industrial town corporations realised that they had to provide effective supplies of fresh water and good sanitation systems if disease was to be kept under control in the rapidly increasing urban populations. [7], In 2018 artists Jeannette Ehlers and La Vaughn Belle unveiled a 7 meters (23 ft)-tall statue of Mary Thomas, seated on a throne with a cane knife and torch. They were already involved elsewhere in the town and could not handle the extra loomage. Half a day's measuring and calculating gave me a figure of 140 tons, of which 62½ tons was in the 24 foot diameter flywheel, and we sold it for £800. On 30 Nov 1885 Bastfield (Cob Wall) was leased and bought with the help of a mortgage, dated 30 Nov 1888, from William Almond. Part way through an Excess Profits Duty was levied and Income Tax was increased; though tax laws were nothing like as tight as those during the 1939-46 war. We have used several pricing systems, but never an accurate costing. If satisfactory we were prepared to buy a quantity. There was a big difference between tariffs for lighting alone and lighting with power. I scanned the typescript into Microsoft Word in 1998. One of the earliest available trading accounts shows sales of cloth, twelve months to Sept 1894 - £151,082. By signing these contracts, the laborers became slaves again, in all but name.[1][2]. (13) Manufacturers of textile machinery. On Wednesday 24 July, the funeral cortége of many carriages, travelled from Clitheroe Castle to Blackburn Parish Church, prior to interment in the crypt. George Ephraim joined the RAF in 1943 and was discharged late 1945. To comply with the new Factory Regulations it needed re-spacing, which also meant re-flooring and re-lighting. Pref. He was killed on a training flight over Chaigley, near Longridge Fell. These were following one section of the mob up Preston New Road when another section came out to Wilpshire and attacked Clayton Grange, the home of Colonel Jackson, chairman of the Manufacturers' Association. Eventually taken over by Mather & Platt who were absorbed by a multi-national in their turn. Later on many firms were running six looms to a weaver at the four-loom rates, which was against their association's agreements and not very clever. There were about six hundred looms in this shed and they had arranged to take two hundred, while another firm ran the remainder and the engine. Money invested in the production of textiles will not show a worthwhile return.". George Hindle had three sons, Ephraim Haworth, George and Robert, and four daughters. They were run mainly on those qualities where the maximum cash benefit would accrue, poplins, jacquard. One loom, two dobbies Swallow St. Mill (Latherbox) deeds go back to 1823. (16) A loom mechanic, responsible for the correct mechanical operation of the looms under his care. Shortly after Royal and Bastfield engines fetched £300 and £610. It was bought from John Southworth & Co., four brothers. He was the only remaining partner in H & N at this time. In the same breath they were preaching "efficiency" to Lancashire. Money from their father's estate in Finland was put into the business. Ruined Haslingden Mill. It was, therefore, ironic & sad that this was his last order. To this day the older folk still call a weaving shed a "shop". In all my working life I never knew a government that was on our side. It was all mulls (5) to start with not liking to compete in dhooties with D. W. Taylor whom Ephraim had left. In 1891 he sold to Brookhouse Spinning Co. Ltd, who sold it to E & G Hindle Ltd in Aug 1937. We started cautiously by putting Royal weaving shed out for offers from several brokers we knew. The flywheel was 24 feet diameter and weighed over 60 tons. The directors were prepared to run Bastfield and scrap Royal and Swallow St By 1980, only the offices and the warehouse were standing, the latter being a discount wallpaper shop! with us at Bastfield up to June 1950. Bradford Office was cleared at about the stocktaking value at September. John Duckworth, Blackburn, lost £78,000 1961 and £11,000 in 1962. 1878 Blackburn Riots Col Jackson COTTON Lancashire Political Commemorative Jug * Sign in for checkout Check out as guest . To help workpeople to start saving, on occasions the firm would lend them money at fixed interest, not to be withdrawn until fully paid back. A younger son was head of the Blackburn Electricity Undertaking, later NorthWest Electricity Board. The memo, found in Sir Frank Whittle's archive at Cambridge University, shows the future turbojet inventor sharing his designs with the Air Ministry in 1938, but not receiving a reply. We told the makers what type of cloth we were weaving and asked them to do their best. He was made director December 1955 after his father George had been taken ill, but left in December 1958. The mayor of Blackburn had had to read the Riot Act in the market place and a company of the military had been drafted to the town. In those days of horse transport the place was miles from anywhere. More space seems to have been taken with later years, but that was the part I saw best. It was late in 1878 when, with his brother George, they first thought of running their own business. A couple of merchants evidently thought they would make hay while they could and put in claims against making orders, which we settled reasonably. We contacted other metal brokers outside the cotton trade some of whom were unfamiliar with cotton machinery and were talking in prices per ton, £8 to £8/10/-, and I started estimating weights. Whether this by itself was economic was open to question. It is not a director's job to prophesy to his shareholders, and on past history and estimated break-up value, it seemed probable that a shareholder could increase his income. On 14 May 1959 1878 Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images (18) I can remember one son as an American serviceman over here during the Second World War, since he gave me my first ever 'Lifesavers'! (5) A variety of muslin, a plain-woven cotton fabric made in various weights. In July a weaver in our cloth range told us he had a twelve-month order book and could sell further ahead if he dared. (23) They were less than half a mile apart. This strike finally ended some 69 days later, after it was put down by unofficial militias, the National Guard, and federal troops. New York agency started with Stein Doblin in '24, Carl Kaufman fixed up this agency in St Gall. Shafting was carried on roof pillars and between two pillars would be four rows of looms. The 1878 St. Croix labor riot, locally also known as Fireburn, was a labor riot on Saint Croix, one of the Virgin Islands, then part of the Danish West Indies. Some prices were ridiculous, some better than expected, but it thoroughly justified our decision to sell the bulk piecemeal. A sub-committee was appointed, working in secrecy with the Board of Trade, on a plan to delete surplus productive capacity. In April 1931 we guaranteed an overdraft for Foster Shepherd & Co. Bradford. It took 2½ hours to conduct a buyer round. In practice one row in four was taken out and a loom or two taken off the end of each row, reducing the loomage by about 30%. One condition was that we were "available for employment", the only acceptable practicable proof of which was to sign on at the Labour Exchange for three months. This was a year of the cotton riots. In addition, 12 laborers were condemned to death and hanged on October 5 1878. For preparation machinery at Royal, one of our local two-generations-old pals offered £110, which we sold out of town for £271, which made us think the scrap metal trade even lower than cotton. In November 1931 George Nelson left the partnership after some argument and in Dec 1932 E. & G. Hindle Ltd took over all assets in liquidation of their liability to us, keeping Mr Shepherd on as manager until he died in January 1957 at 80 years old, very active, and at the office when he was taken ill a fortnight before he died. Probably the looms were £9-£10 each, new. (36) An automatic method of producing allover figured fabrics. (25) Pirns are large barrel-shaped packages used to hold the weft, or filling, yarn supply for the shuttle in weaving. The partnership had its good and bad times, but in twenty-nine years it had made two or three thousand pounds grow into £80,000. It had been leased all this time, but the catch is that in 1919 all the ordinary shares in Brookhouse were bought by E & G Hindle Ltd, who carried on spinning under that name until 1937 when the spinning side was sold to the Spindles Board, to be broken up. It was used by Ministry of Supply for storage. In February 1940 we brought in Associated Industrial Consultants to Bastfield Mill, who did a work-study and put us on a system whereby the bulk of the shed was eight looms to a weaver instead of the previous four. Most of the gearing was sold, but only one engine and one boiler. Not bad after 30 years standing idle in an unheated shed. 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