Trades in Regency England: Grinding cutlery, iron works and flax spinning. Workers seated at grinding wheels in a cutlery factory in Sheffied 58, workers casting iron in moulds in a Rotherham iron-works 59 and women spinning flax or hemp in a cottage in Snaith 60. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor’s Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865.

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