>Dear Linda > >Manchester was the commercial center serving "King Cotton" and many of the > >mills in townships around had warehouses in Manchester as well as mills in > And don't forget that we were world class engineers as well. Whitworth, Beyer, Garret, Mather & Platt, all names that rang around the world. John ___________________________________________________________ Tiscali Broadband from 14.99 with free setup! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/

In message <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes >>Dear Linda >> >>Manchester was the commercial center serving "King Cotton" and many of the >> >>mills in townships around had warehouses in Manchester as well as mills >in >> > >And don't forget that we were world class engineers as well. Whitworth, Beyer, >Garret, Mather & Platt, all names that rang around the world. It's true - at one time, if you needed to be sure of getting a job, there were only two places to go - London or Manchester, with the exciting, cutting edge jobs in the north. Parishes shipped their paupers north (even some of the London ones). Nowadays.......! -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society