. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. anufacturers; Flax-dressers; Dyers; Stay-makers; Str aw-pi alters; Thread-makers, &c. Tobacco and Thread weremanufacftured in Barker Street, in buildings still standing. A Dye-house occurs in a RateBook in i6gi in Middlesiche; the straw-plaiters lived, until about fifty years age, in WoodStreet, Wall Lane, and Vauxhall. Clotfiins Jfattortes. On the site of Townsend House, in Welsh Row, commodious premises were built byMessrs. George Harlock & Co. for the manufadture of moleskin, corduroy, &c. go
. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. anufacturers; Flax-dressers; Dyers; Stay-makers; Str aw-pi alters; Thread-makers, &c. Tobacco and Thread weremanufacftured in Barker Street, in buildings still standing. A Dye-house occurs in a RateBook in i6gi in Middlesiche; the straw-plaiters lived, until about fifty years age, in WoodStreet, Wall Lane, and Vauxhall. Clotfiins Jfattortes. On the site of Townsend House, in Welsh Row, commodious premises were built byMessrs. George Harlock & Co. for the manufadture of moleskin, corduroy, &c. goods,about thirty years ago; and within the last ten years a new trade, namely,—the cuttingout and making up of cloth for ordinary wearing apparel, has been introduced; and nowgives employment to several hundreds of the population. The first fadtory, on the Barony,built by Messrs. Harding & Co. of Manchester, was opened in June, 1872, and has sincebeen several times enlarged. Others have embarked in the same business; and thetrade promises to supersede the manufacture of %\)t C})apel of ^aint i^larp. NOW CALLED
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