Industrial England in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century

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The commerce between the Eussian ports and Newcastle led to the early establishment of rope-making factories in that town and its neighbourhood, when ropes were required not only for shipping, but for use in the coal-mines.
Some of the roperies were on the banks of the Tyne, so that the larger ship's cables which 1 Note on the Textile Industries of Dublin, in the British Association Handbook, 1878.
HEMP AND ROPE 71 "could not be coiled into lifting coils nor weighed" might be run direct "on end
..." into craft which conveyed them to the ships. 1 The manufacture of rope, cordage, and fishing- nets had been the staple industry of Bridport, in Dorsetshire, from a very early date. The raw material was the hemp which was grown in large quantities in the county. By the middle of the eighteenth century the business had somewhat decayed, owing to the importation of hemp and hemp yarn from Holland and Bussia, and also to the development of the manufacture elsewhere.
The making of twine and of nets was, however, still flourishing, and indeed has continued to the present day, when it still offers one of the few surviving examples of a domestic industry.


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