The Last Shift: The Decline of Handloom Weaving in Nineteenth-century Lancashire

amongst Anglican areas Baines Blackburn Bolton bridegroom weaver Britain British Burnley Bythell census Census Returns census schedules cent Central Lancashire Chorley cloth Colne concerned contemporary cottages cotton hand weavers cotton industry Cotton Manufacture cotton trade cotton weaving Darwen decline domestic early nineteenth century earnings employment entries estimates evidence example fabric factory father weavers figures Fylde groups hand and power hand weaver numbers hand weaving labour hand weaving trade handloom manufacturers handloom weavers Haslingden historians Ibid income Industrial Revolution J. H. Clapham J. S. Lyons Lancashire's Lancaster Leigh loomshops major Manchester mechanised mid-nineteenth century mid-Victorian Middleton Newchurch-in-Pendle North Fylde North Meols numbers of hand occupations Oldham Ormskirk outwork Padiham parish register Penwortham population power weavers powerloom Preston production recorded reprint Ribble Valley Ribchester Rochdale rural Samlesbury sample silk Table textile towns urban Victorian wages Walton-le-Dale weaver proportions weaving labour force whilst Wigan workers woven