Lancashire Quotes
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When a large part of the market for British textiles was in the colonies, a fall in the price of tea and cocoa caused unemployment in Lancashire.
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More Lancashire Quotes
In the early morning the mill girls clumping down the cobbled street, all in clogs, making a curiously formidable sound, like an army hurrying into battle. I suppose this is the typical sound of Lancashire.
— 1936 Diary entry,18 Feb. He used this as material for his book The Road to Wigan Pier (1937).
